The Moor's head

The moor's head, beautiful and widespread in Sicily, has today become one of the symbols of this  island. But do you know the story of the moor's head?

We must go back many centuries and to be exact to the year 1100 and we must stop in Palermo.

" It was the period of Arab domination in Sicily and it is said that in that year in Kalsa, a district of Palermo, there lived a beautiful girl who spent her days  at home taking care of the many  plants that adorned her balcony.

One day a young dark - haired man passed right in front of her house, who on seeing her immediately fell in love whit her.So he entered her house

and declared his love to her. He stayed with her but would leave for the East  where his wife and children were waiting for him so she took  advantage of the night to kill him in his sleep, and cut off his head.

She used his head as a vase for her basil, wich grew luxuriantly thanks to the many  tears she shed on it every day.

The neighbors  envied that plant in that pot and so they had clay  pots built in the shape of a moor's head.

:) A little disturbing story right? But the vases are too beautiful, and it 's worth buying them  !!!!