Known locally in Sicilian as San Paulu, Solarino holds an unexpected connection to the world of combat sports as the ancestral home of Australian martial artist Sam Greco, whose father emigrated from here to Melbourne.
Arriving from the coast just 15 kilometers west of Syracuse, visitors find a municipality of nearly 7,900 residents. Sharing borders with Palazzolo Acreide and Sortino, the town serves as a quiet geographical waypoint roughly 190 kilometers southeast of Palermo.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; on 25 January the Conversion of Saint Paul
Solarino celebrates Saint Paul the Apostle on the first Sunday of August; the town takes its name from the apostle's three-day stop at Syracuse in AD 61, according to local tradition.
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Outside Solarino, but an easy day trip away.
