Sicily
Sicily Without seeing Sicily, one cannot get an idea of Italy. It is in Sicily that the key to everything is found. (W. Goethe) Sicily, an island in a sea of light, queen of the Mediterranean, an immense cauldron [...]
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Agrigento
Agrigento (60 km) The Valley of the Temples, near Agrigento, is known throughout the world for its rich archaeological treasures, and is included in the list of World Heritage Sites drawn up by Unesco. At the south-eastern edge of [...]
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Caltabellotta
Caltabellotta (22 km) Caltabellotta is located about 1,000 meters above sea level, which is why it represents a real terrace on the Mediterranean. From the highest point, i.e. the accessible one, called "Pizzo di Caltabellotta", you can enjoy a [...]
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Marsala
Marsala (77 km away) Marsala is an Italian city of 82,390 inhabitants in the Province of Trapani, on the western coast of Sicily. Its name comes from the Arabic "Marsa Allah", literally "Port of God". It is famous above [...]
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Torre Salsa
TORRE SALSA (35 km away) Torre Salsa is a natural oasis owned by the WWF. The oasis represents one of the last examples of coastal-dune ecosystem: a unique environment that forms the link between the sea and the mainland. [...]
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Piana degli albanesi
PIANA DEGLI ALBANESI (80 km away) Piana degli Albanesi is the largest Albanian colony on the island, was founded in 1488 by a group of Albanian exiles, led by Giorgio Castriota Skanderberg, fleeing from Albania where there was the [...]
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Segesta
SEGESTA (85 km away) It was the most important city of the Elimi, a mixed population of Sicans and Anatolians to whom Ionian Greek immigrants were later added. It was the eternal rival of Selinunte and this led, after [...]
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Palermo
PALERMO (96 km away) Tied to Carthage after the Himera war of 480 BC, Palermo gains more and more importance in the political scene of the island, power that comes to decline only in 254 BC. with the Roman [...]
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Monreale
MONREALE (100 km) The town, preferred by the Norman kings as a summer residence, is famous throughout the world for the splendid cathedral and the annexed former Benedictine monastery with the remarkable 12th century cloister. The Cathedral of Monreale [...]
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Trapani
TRAPANI (118 km away) The ancient Sican name was Daprano, an emporium and strategic port of call for the Phoenicians who conquered it in the 8th century BC. Subsequently the center becomes even more important with the Carthaginians who [...]