Sicily is the greatest island of the Mediterranean and rich of history and tradition gathered through centuries of history and under different foreign dominations. The principal cities include the regional capital Palermo, together with the other provincial capitals Catania, Messina, Siracusa, Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta, Agrigento, Ragusa. Other famous Sicilian towns are for example Cefalu and Taormina.

It is also a fabulous island with a old architecture how Roman villas, Greek temples, Benedictine monasteries, Norman towers and Baroque churches.

Sicily's greatest natural attraction is its highest mountain. The Mount Etna lies on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. At approximately 3350 meters, it is Europe's highest active volcano. Over 1200 square meters of Etna's surface is covered with solidified lava. Etna offers skiing in the Winter months and breathtaking hikes in the woods during the Summer.

Nature
Sicily offers you a unique and unforgettable scenery made of big and small bays, promontories, steep cliffs, sand dunes, granite rocks and a lot of natural parks and reserves. The vegetation in Sicily is amazing: palms, olive trees, vineyards, orange and lemon trees grow all along the coast, while on mountain slopes woods of chestnuts, beech, oaks, hazelnuts, fir trees and holm oaks.

Sicily maintains numerous nature reserves and green areas Sicily, for exampel the Alcantara River, with its unique gorge, the Nebrodi Mountains, where wild horses still run free or great birdwatching in the Madonie Mountains, where griffon vultures and golden eagles nest. Most of the offshore islands, with their intact coasts and underwater environment, are now marine reserves.

Regional Cuisine
The Sicilian cuisine is tightly connected to the historical and cultural stories of Sicily, and to the religious and spiritual life of the island. It is a complex and articulated regional gastronomic culture, that shows traces and contributions of all the cultures that are established in Sicily in the last two millennia. In the dishes of the Sicilian cuisine the oil extra vergine of olive is exclusively used. The principal ingredients are vegetable or sea (fish and molluscs) above all.