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Sicily

Consider Sicily its own country. For millennia, this gorgeous island was fought over by everyone from the Phoenicians and Romans to the Moors, Spaniards and Savoia.  Today’s Trinacria is a melting pot of culture in fascinating art, architecture, music and food. Its natural landscape, Baroque hill towns and beaches never get any better than here, and its cities are beautiful, mysterious and as unpredictable as volcano Etna. 

FUN FACTS

  • At 7730 square meters, Palermo’s Teatro Massimo is the largest opera house in Italy. Built in 1897, Teatro Massimo was immortalized by Francis Ford Coppola in the final scene of The Godfather Part III.
  • Sicily is surrounded by three seas: the Tyrrhenian, the Mediterranean, and the Ionian sea, and maintains a 263 km distance from mainland Italy while its southernmost island is only 113 km from Tunisia.
  • Mount Etna, at 3350 meters, is the tallest active volcano in all of Europe and ranks as the second most active volcano in the world.
  • Io m’aggio posto in core- the very first sonnet was scripted by Giacomo da Lentini in 1230 in Palermo.
  • The Baroque town of Modica produces incredible chocolate using the original Aztec recipes brought to Sicily by the Spanish more than four centuries ago.

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