Piana degli Albanesi - Albanian heritage in Sicily and great cannoli!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- #sicily #sicilianfood #albany
Hello everyone,
this time we are glad to show you Piana degli Albanesi, another village in the province of Palermo.
The official name of the town was Piana dei Greci until 1941. This village is situated on a mountainous plateau and encircled by high mountains, on the eastern side of the imposing Mount Pizzuta, the city, which is mirrored on a large lake. Piana degli Albanesi is 24 km far from Palermo, the capital of Sicily.
Piana degli Albanesi was founded in the late 15th century by a large group of Albanian refugees coming from the Balkans during the conquest of the latter by the Ottoman Empire. The exodus began after the death of Skanderbeg, who successfully fought Ottoman armies for more than two decades.
The town is the most important center of the Albanians of Sicily, as well as the largest and most populous colony of Arbëreshë (Italo-Albanian or Albanians of Italy) and it is the episcopal see of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, constituency of the Italo-Albanian Church whose jurisdiction covers all Albanians of Sicily who practice the Byzantine rite.
The community, after five centuries from its foundation, has maintained many ethnic elements of Albanian culture like language, religious ritual, traditional costumes, music and folklore.
Piana degli Albanesi boasts a great local gastronomy. It offers dishes and desserts typical of the Sicilian-Albanian tradition, in which one can note the presence of elements deriving from the Balkans and the Mediterranean. The delicious bread and cannoli from Piana degli Albanesi are very popular in the entire Sicily!
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noi italiani e gli albanesi siamo fratelli di sangue.
la Maggior parte degli italiani ha origini arbereshe.
tantissimi nemmeno sanno di averla, io considero il popolo albanese come fratello, condividiamo gli stessi valori.
Ottimo commento. Condividiamo in toto!
👏👏👏 it’s very true actually… Italy has been for Albanians since Ancient times… since Illiricum or Illyria
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My Albanians of Sicily and Calabria or as we say Arbereshe. Greetings from Kosova
Hi C Evans! Hugs from Sicily
Great video. I'm Arbereshe and like to see videos of this area.
Sure Gary! We will do it. Thanks for following us!
@@best-things-to-do-in-sicily me too! My parents are from Santa Cristina Gela and I speak Arberesh too. Check my channel out
Thank you!!! My family is from Santa Christina Gela and Piana degli Albanesi. Planning to bring my extended family for a tour with your services.
You guys are so fabulous. Thank you for this tour of my ancestral village🙏❤
Thank you Alexandra!!! Have you ever been to Piana and Sicily?
Thank you guys for this video,prezentin to the world albanian nation.
Thank you! Love to all Albanians in the world!
🇦🇱🇮🇹🇲🇰🇽🇰🇺🇸🇮🇹🇦🇱❤️🌹 Respekt të madhë për Arëbreshtë e Italisë 🇦🇱
thanks for following us!
Another fantastic video. Love you guys so much. I so want to visit you in Sicily.
we look forward to meeting you Elissa!!!
Thank you, love you🙏 ❤🇮🇹🇦🇱
My family (Matranga) is from Piana. My wife and I visited PdA in 2019. My grandfather, as a young boy, would get the family water from the Cannoli fountain. The best cannolis are made here!
Ciao Rich, thanks for following us! We are very happy to have shown your ancestral village!
You must be lucky sharing that surname of famous albanian poet of arbereshi
heritage Lek Matranga.He was born in Piana Degli Albanezi and in 1592 He
wrote his poems called "Dottrina Christiana".
Shumë bukur.
Love Italy 🇦🇱❤️🇮🇹
Bravo arberesh Albania ilirike ,
I hope to retire in the Hora e Arbëreshve. I found a small house.
We don't speak a dialect, we speak a language.
An ancient language that not even Albania cannot understand
@@TheCemeteryEnthusiast
Albanians can understand perfectly. It was spoken for milenia in Albania,didn't begin in the 15th century.
@@TheCemeteryEnthusiast it's pretty similar to Gheg dialect. That's what north albanian regions talk.
@@TheCemeteryEnthusiast i'm albanian and i can understand it
@@TheCemeteryEnthusiast We can Understand? which just shows you dont know what your talking about
Bravo Ragazzi👍😍
Thanks Freddie
Ho guardato questo video perché il mio ragazzo habita a Piana e mi piacce tantissimo andarlí per trovarlo. Il bar dove avete visto i canolli é il proprio posto dove ci abbiamo incontrato. Lui lavora nella fabbrica d'olio che avete mostrato. E poi, alle 53:04, mi sono impazzito! Anch'io mi chiamo Alisa! Un bel video che avete fatto! 😁🥰👍❤
Che bella storia! Grazie per avercela raccontata! Tanti auguri a te e al tuo ragazzo😍
You guys are freaking AWESOME. i love your channel. love from INDIA
Hi Shaktiman! We love you too! Thanks for your kind comment!
Ich schätze eures Video. Die Arbereshen sind Albaner welche von Türken in 15 Jahrhundert vertrieben wurden.
vielen dank
Saint Demetrius is the English translation of the church in the beginning. It is similar to how the name is said in Greek.
thank you Jonathan!
She's screaming because she is Siciliana, thats the way we talk, communicate. LOL!!!
ahahaha you're right... but she broke my ear!!!
Great vids from the USA! Poor people getting locked down, they don’t work
and no pay!
Nice to see that those people can live somewhere and not trying to declare greather Albania there, who would say that they can be peaceful, their part on our side of Adriatic is lot more invasive unfortunately, they are not that bad when they are not engineered and projected to make problems
When all the planet is suffering a bigger problem these are stupid questions. Planet Earth should be our common place. People should be proud and passionate about their heritage but fanaticisms always bring to madness.
There was a land called Illyria or what u call now greater Albania… and the peaceful people u referring to are for it not against it 👀🤷♂️ Albanians are peaceful people 🤷♂️ but just like any other population…. Wars and crimes don’t make people peaceful they make them brave…. Brave enough to claim what’s rightfully theirs 🤷♂️… by any means possible!!! 🇦🇱🤷♂️
@@tonidone1309 Rightfully their?! How monasteries and pallaces of serbian kings thousands of years old are rightfully theirs? How Kosovo is theirs when even Kosovo is Serbian word, every stone on Kosovo has serbian name? And if tearing people apart for organs is peacefull than yes they are peacefull, if crucifiing of electricians and postmans is peacefull than they are Indeed the most peacefull people of Europe, if kidnaping of wood rangers and torturing them is act of noble peacefull people, than I have no argument. Illyrians were one minor tribe in space of todays Dalmatia Croatia, and they existed in area of Croatia and Montenegro, Illyrians were sailors, wariors, and they had 100 terms for sea fish, Albanians have no naval words of their own they are taken from other languages, Ilyrians were tallest people of Roman empire, Dalmatians, Hertzegovians and Montenegrins are tallest people in the world, Albanians are average 1,7m for man, they have no connections with Illyrians, and no scientific proof they existed on Balcan in roman period, why? Time and date of both albanian arivals on Balcan is known to us, on 1000 years ago, second 600 years ago, those people are NOT AUTOCHTONOUS, they are agressive invaders.
@@tonidone1309 And if argument is albanian primeminister is tall, answer is large part of albanian population are arbanised Montenegrins, Serbs, and other auchtohtonous but realy auchtohtonous people of Balcan, proof He was Ortodox, became catolic, and his children are Ortodox, and other proof Albanians are partly from Caucasus, are churches identical to ones in Caucasian Albania, so unique they can't be mistaken for something else, than part of them is from Algerian Amasings proof, dances, ethno costumes, colors, customs, very very scientific, very clear, they never fited with Balcans, and they never will.
@@marybee1594 I didn’t get the irony on the first paragraph but I think I have an idea what ur trying to say (although u covered lots of topics in one paragraph) … albanised?!?👀😳👀 first of all the world calls us Albanian… to understand who we are u must first open a history book 📚 🤷♂️ not the one ur government or ours … the one historians study and put it out there for u and I to find our identities… we (Albanians) go by the name of Shqiptar (skiptar -ancient) it’s mentioned in the Bible 👀… the same Bible u pray to 😎☝️… as for Algeria, and what ever middle eastern country ur mentioning… it’s clear!! Alexander the Great conquered Persia 👉🤷♂️👉📚👉😎👉🤷♂️
👏👏🥰🥰🥰❤️🇦🇱🦅⭐️🦅