ITALIANISSIMO

Sicilia

Consider Sicily its own country. The solitary island is a melting pot of culture, history, art, architecture, music and food, wth a personality as beautiful and volatile as 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.

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.