Sicily is a land of culture, art, nature and why not adventure too??
It is well known that our island has been land of conquest of many civilizations, the Phoenicians, the Greeks (who considered Sicily their native land), the Roman, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Norman, the French (Angioini), the Spanish (Aragonesi), and finally the Austrians and the Bourbons. Each of these civilization has left its traces.This render unique every angle of Sicily.
The entire Sicily, city by city, and also the more remote small villages are full of archaeological sites, nobiliary palaces and patrician villas. The precious natural beauties like the sea, the imposing Etna’s white mantle constitute picturesque beauties that in few kilometres of distance show various morphologic characteristics of the landscape but all charming and interesting.
The Etna with its 3,500 mt of altitude reserve the wonderful feeling to breathe pure air merged in the Mediterranean flora with the magical background of the sea. The only excursion on the top of the Etna is worth a travel from whichever part of the world. Highly worthy of consideration, is our culinary culture any one who has ever been in Sicily knows Pasta alla Norma, Pasta with anchovy, with cauliflower, the arancine of rice, the caponata, every kind of fish, couscous and the cakes like cannoli, cassata, almond biscuits, and still ice-cream, this was invented here and brought to the maximum expression of flavours.
We cannot forget the Mediterranean hospitality of the Sicilian, that inland in remote small villages has not been lost from the phrenetic rhythms of life in the modern metropolis.
The entire Sicily, city by city, and also the more remote small villages are full of archaeological sites, nobiliary palaces and patrician villas. The precious natural beauties like the sea, the imposing Etna’s white mantle constitute picturesque beauties that in few kilometres of distance show various morphologic characteristics of the landscape but all charming and interesting.
The Etna with its 3,500 mt of altitude reserve the wonderful feeling to breathe pure air merged in the Mediterranean flora with the magical background of the sea. The only excursion on the top of the Etna is worth a travel from whichever part of the world. Highly worthy of consideration, is our culinary culture any one who has ever been in Sicily knows Pasta alla Norma, Pasta with anchovy, with cauliflower, the arancine of rice, the caponata, every kind of fish, couscous and the cakes like cannoli, cassata, almond biscuits, and still ice-cream, this was invented here and brought to the maximum expression of flavours.
We cannot forget the Mediterranean hospitality of the Sicilian, that inland in remote small villages has not been lost from the phrenetic rhythms of life in the modern metropolis.
