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Holiday in Sicily Italy Guide, Aeolian islands mount Etna, Valley of the temples.
THE REGION: There are several images of the Sicily: that one of bloomed garden and orange groves on the coastal wraps, with the ancient splendid columns of temples and tops covered with snow in the background; the parched one of the hills of the inside, between half-deserted fields and populated villages bound to the past. Situated in the center of the Mediterranean and equipped with a favourable natural atmosphere to the takeovers, the Sicily has been, since the antiquity, an important point of encounter and place of trade exchanges between Europe and Asia, and still today it is possible to notice, in the cultural and architectonic character of the island, that unique gather of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arabs, Norman and Spanish influences. Nearly always icily has been loved, taken advantage of it and after abandoned from the powers that dominated it from time to time. The emerging of the mafia phenomenon, more and more strongly in our century, has inhibited over a long time the economic and civil increase of the region, which tries nowadays a way of escape, independent and aware, towards the development.

Holiday in Sicily Italy Guide, Aeolian islands, mount Etna vulcano, Valley of the temples
TO SEE: Its coasts and its sea; Palermo and its historical center; Cefalù; Siracusa and the archaeological area; Catania; the salines of Trapani; Silenunte; Erice; the Aeolian islands, Egadi, Pantelleria and Lampedusa; Monreale

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The Valley of the temples of Agrigento
-Ibla, the ancient Ragusa
-Piazza Armerina; Caltagirone
-Taormina and its theatre
-Etna and the coves of Alcantara
-The feast for Saint Rosalia
-The swordfish

Locality
Acireale (CT)
Acitrezza (CT)
CATANIA (CT)
Cefalù (PA)
Fondachello (CT)
Letojanni (ME)
S. Agate Militello (ME)
SIRACUSA (SR)
Taormina (ME)

TYPICAL PLATES:
Arancini: Fried balls of rice filled with meat ragù of or peas and cheese.
Paste to the Norm: Spaghetti flavoured with eggplants, tomatoes and salted ricotta chees.
Cassata: Spanish bred covered with glassed cream candy fruits


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