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Begin your Sicilian odyssey in its capital city - Palermo. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos Spectacularly situated along a wide sweep of bay at the foot of Monte Pellegrino, Palermo was the wealthiest and most magnificent city in Europe in the 12th century. Caltanissetta Villa Rentals Today Palermo has an air of faded grandeur and an unrivalled display of Norman art and architecture and Baroque churches. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos. Stroll along the Via Roma and Via Maqueda in the heart of the old town and get a sense of what Palermo is all about. Solunto Holiday Flats Don’t miss the magnificent 12th century Norman cathedral at Monreale, 8 kilometres southwest of the city. Giardini Naxos Accomodation The inside of the cathedral is covered in breathtakingly glittering mosaics.Tourism is an important earner of foreign currency. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos. There are many castles and churches in Sicily to attract the tourist and important towns such as Taormina and Cefalu thrive on the tourist industry. Eolie Aeolian Islands Bed and Breakfast Tours are available to visit Sicily's active volcanoes: Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, and Stromboli, one of the Aeolian Islands. Information about Palermo Other places of interest are Madonie National Park, the Baroque towns of south-eastern Sicily, the Cathedral of Monreale, the Dorian Temple and Theatre at Segesta, the ancient Greek Theatre of Taormina, the ancient town of Syracuse and the archaeological area of Agrigento. Piazza Armerina Tours and Excursions
Palermo was founded by Phoenicians who sailed there from their native Carthage. Cheap hostels in Giarre The Greeks colonized the whole island, leaving some of the most beautiful and best-preserved temples they ever built at Agrigento, Selinunte and Segesta. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos. Around those glorious sites they planted Sicily's first olive trees and grape vines. Hostels in Trapani Traces of the Roman period in Sicily can be found in the amphitheatres at Taormina and Siracusa, as well as in that city's Christian catacombs. But perhaps Rome's most lasting (and infamous) contribution to the island came in fostering the great land ownerships which eventually impoverished the peasantry and led, many centuries later, to the founding of secret societies aimed at destroying the fabulously wealthy landlords. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos. In Palermo, these groups were known as mafia. Windsurfing Sicily
'To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not having seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the key to everything.' So said Goethe. Booking Hotels Giardini Naxos. Tuscany might want a look in, and Rome might beg to differ, but Sicily, with a history of foreign occupation across the centuries, is certainly fascinating, with a real pot-pourri of culture, cuisine and architecture. Plus the odd volcano. Solunto villas
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