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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily
History, facts and travel tips about Sicily Sicily is a delightfully verdant island facing the Mediterranean Sea, characterised by its varied landscape, beautiful scenery and multiethnic inhabitants. The famous coastline of the island varies from sandy...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/syracuse
due to the abundance of the bird on this island in ancient times. Ortigia is separated from the mainland of Syracuse and Sicily by a narrow strip of sea-water, spanned by the Ponte Nuovo ("New Bridge") which by Sicily's standards is indeed "new". The...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/trapani
Virtual travel to Trapani, Sicily - Italy The elongated scythe like form of Trapani, as it curves elegantly into the sea, inspired early settlers: the Elymians, of Phoenician extraction, named the city Drepanon, which translated means "sickle". Legend...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/taormina
French, and the Sicilian Vespers uprising, Taormina gave its support to the Spanish Aragon family, who, once established in Sicily, rewarded the city richly. Various Spanish and Aragon ruling families funded the building of churches and great houses in...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/travel-guides/travel-tips/st-joseph-s-day-tables
Sicily has many religious festivals, many dating back to ancient times. March 19th is celebrated throughout Italy as a day of honoring and giving thanks to Saint Joseph the patron saint of workers and artisans. As the husband of the Blessed Virgin...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/messina
History, facts and travel tips about Messina Messina is known as the door of Sicily. With its port, shaped like a sickle, it has always been a trading city. Situated close to the Peninsular, there has been busy throughfare between Messina and the...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/catania
epochs each contributed to its characteristics and culture. Though occupied and invaded over the centuries with the rest of Sicily, Catania has a reputation for being a resilient city, tough on unwanted invaders. The city's symbol is an elephant, as it...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/palermo
powers till the ninth century, when thanks to Arab conquest, it flowered into its true splendour becoming the capital of Sicily having, in its heyday an emir, giving it great status in the Arab world. In this period the city was enriched with sumptuous...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/cefalu/cathedral-of-cefalu
Cathedral of Cefalù Legend tells that Roger II, the well-known Norman sovereign of Sicily, in gratitude to God for sparing his life in a violent storm at sea, commissioned the building of a grand Cathedral at Cefalù, where he landed after the tempest....
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/sicily/guided-tours-things-to-do
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