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Sicily's
sunny, dry climate, scenery, cuisine, history and architecture attract many tourists from mainland Italy and abroad. The tourist season peaks in the summer months, although people visit the island all year round. Mount Etna, the beaches, the archeological sites, and major cities such as Palermo, Catania, Syracuse and Ragusa are the favourite tourist destinations, but the old town of Taormina and the neighbouring seaside resort of Giardini Naxos draw visitors from all over the world, as do the Aeolian Islands, Erice, Cefalù, Agrigento, the Pelagie Islands and Capo d'Orlando. The last features some of the best-preserved temples of the ancient Greek period. Many Mediterranean cruise ships stop in Sicily, and many wine tourists also visit the island.
- unesco
- valle dei templi
- agrigento
- TAORMINA
- villa romana del casale
- aeolian island
- baroque towns
- necropolis of pantalica
- mount etna
- Temple of Concordia
- Temple of Juno
- Temple of Heracles
- Temple of Olympian Zeus
- Temple of Asclepius
- Temple of Castor and Pollux
- temple of apollo
- temple of athena
- syracuse
- himera
- selinunte
- segesta
- temple de zeus
History of Sicily by the Greeks to the Romans,
The original inhabitants of Sicily were three defined groups of the ancient peoples of Italy. The most prominent and by far the earliest of these was the Sicani, who were said by Thucydides to have arrived from the Iberian Peninsula (perhaps Catalonia). Important historical evidence has been discovered in the form of cave drawings by the Sicani, dated from the end of the Pleistocene epoch around 8000 BC. The arrival of the first humans on the island is correlated with the extinction of the Sicilian Hippopotamus and the dwarf elephant.
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