Category: Sicily
Only 3 km from the mainland across the Straits of Messina, but completely different appearance, feel and the culture. Hot Arabic sun and cold snow on the slopes of Monte Etna.
The biggest island on Mediterranean sea, due to its triangular shape once got the name Trinacria, which in Greek means ‘of three beginnings’.
There are plenty of gulfs and small islands and the beaches are consideredto be among the best in Italy. The sun lovers will find their prefect holiday place in Taormina or Cefalu, these interested in ancient history should visit sites around Syracuse and Agrigento and good Sicilian food and wine you will find in every town or village around the island.
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Taormina
Taormina became the most famous Sicilian tourist resort some two hundred years ago, included in educational Grand Tour taken by many of young members of European aristocracy. It was, and still is the popular vacation spot for bankers families, like Rotshild, aristocrats like Wilhelm II of Germany, and Hollywood stars, like the Taylor-Burton couple.
Scala dei Turchi
Among 136 km of coastline in Agrigento province the part near Realmonte bears the exotic, unexpected name – Scala dei Turchi. Above the sandy beach rise layers of incredibly white cliff of limestone shaped into a kind of long terraced steps leading to the land.
Discover Sicily, Catania, Palermo etc
Sicily’s prime geographic location in the centre of the Mediterranean Basin has meant that, over time, settlers and conquerors from the medieval Normans, Aragonese Spanish, Moorish North Africans, ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans have come and, except for the latter, mostly, gone. Today, Sicily’s Roman ruins are rivaled only by those in Rome, and lovers [...]
