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Visit My-Sicily.com for Sicily Hotels, Holidays and Car Hire. Sicily is a mountainous island — an extension of the Apennine Mountains separated from the mainland by the Straits of Messina. Siracusa Syracuse Map There are many reasons to visit Sicily: water sports, beaches of rock and sand (including black sand), natural beauty, good food and friendly people. Self catering accommodation PanareaA source of revenue for the Sicilian economy has been money sent home from migrants. Siracusa Syracuse Map 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. Siracusa Syracuse Map. Although far from home strong links bound Sicilian migrants to their families and communities in Sicily. Noto Car Hire 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. Tourist Information office centre Capo D Orlando It is hardly surprising that Sicily should exert its "pull" on its own people as it has done to many others in the past. Messina Holiday Flats Tourism is an important earner of foreign currency. Siracusa Syracuse Map. 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. Diving Centres Dive Sites and Schools Milazzo Tours are available to visit Sicily's active volcanoes: Mount Etna, Europe's tallest volcano, and Stromboli, one of the Aeolian Islands. Enna Bed and Breakfast 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. Eolie Aeolian Islands Villa Rentals Palermo was founded by Phoenicians who sailed there from their native Carthage. Discount accommodation Erice The Greeks colonized the whole island, leaving some of the most beautiful and best-preserved temples they ever built at Agrigento, Selinunte and Segesta. Siracusa Syracuse Map. Around those glorious sites they planted Sicily's first olive trees and grape vines. Cheap guesthouses Erice 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. Siracusa Syracuse Map. In Palermo, these groups were known as mafia. Information about Catania
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