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A source of revenue for the Sicilian economy has been money sent home from migrants. Hotels Campo Bello di Mazara 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. Hotels Campo Bello di Mazara. Although far from home strong links bound Sicilian migrants to their families and communities in Sicily. Cheap hostels in Ragusa 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. Last minute accommodation Taormina It is hardly surprising that Sicily should exert its "pull" on its own people as it has done to many others in the past. Discount cheap lodging Giarre

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