Heritage of time.

Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is surrounded by three seas: the Ionian, the Tyrrhenian and the Mediterranean sea. It is in the south of Italy and has got 1040 km of sandy and rocky coasts.

It has always been popular for its geographic position and particularly mild climate. Inland is quite hilly and mountainous with two large plains “la Piana di Catania”and “la Conca dÓro”in Palermo.

The richness of its soil is due to its lightness so that the natural need of these people to live by agriculture and the several dominations of the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Normans, have left distinct signs; oranges, grapes, almonds, pistachios, prickly pears, carobs are the results.

Sicily was so rich with wheat that it became called the Roman granary.

— Unknown author

Feel the sicilian nature.

Such a variety of plants , grown between the mountains and sea offers the visitor different kinds of landscapes. It is enough just to mention Catania, situated on the sea just 15 km from Mount Etna, the highest vulcano in Europe. Its underground is rich in sulphur, potassium, salts extracted from mines, many of which are nowadays closed and drilled; oil has been found and it is refined in Gela and Priolo plants.

The history of Sicily is fascinating. Because of its geographical position many peoples from different places tried and succeeded in conquering it.

— Historical fact

Lost in translation.

One can speak of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, to go on through centuries, the Byzantines, the Barbarians, the Arabs, the Normans, the Spaniards until Garibaldi who came and defeated the Bourbons.

Since this time Sicily has belonged to Italy.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Italian Sicily.

Since 1946 Sicily has been a public institution with particular and special power in the legislative and administrative field, but it remains part of the Italian Republic. The legislative organ “lÁssamblea Regione Siciliana”, has its seat in Palermo.

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