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Tourism is an important earner of foreign currency. Flats in Lampedusa. 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. Cheap flats in Siracusa Syracuse Tours are available to visit Sicily's active volcanoes: Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, and Stromboli, one of the Aeolian Islands. Pozzallo apartments 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. Nightlife Entertainment in Giarre

Ironically, the earthquake that devastated the southeastern provinces in 1693 became the springboard for Sicily's most glorious period, the baroque. Hotel Reservations Segesta It gleams in the cities and towns of Palermo, Catania, Siracusa, Ragusa, Noto, Comiso, Scicli and dozens more, all of which had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Ustica Agriturismo After the Aragonese, Sicily passed briefly into the hands of the Austrians, to be willingly rescued in 1734 by the Bourbons of Spain, whose throne was actually located in Naples. Flats in Lampedusa. During one forced exile in Palermo, the Bourbon king Ferdinand's wife Maria Carolina (sister of Marie Antoinette) built La Favorita. , A magnificent refuge in which to hide from the subjects she thoroughly loathed. Hotel Reservations Cefalu Sicily remained in Bourbon hands until 1861, when unification created the Kingdom of Italy.

A source of revenue for the Sicilian economy has been money sent home from migrants. Flats in Lampedusa Like many Europeans, in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, a number of Sicilians migrated to countries such as the USA in search of work. Flats in Lampedusa. Although far from home strong links bound Sicilian migrants to their families and communities in Sicily. Hotel Reservations Marsala In fact, today, some Sicilian Americans are thinking of returning to their roots and small complexes of retirement houses are being constructed for American Sicilians. Self catering accommodation Marsala It is hardly surprising that Sicily should exert its "pull" on its own people as it has done to many others in the past. Camping and Caravan sites in Enna

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