Southern Italy - Sicily (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

More of a sugar-spiked espresso than a milky cappuccino, Sicily rewards visitors with an in-tense, bittersweet experience. Overloaded with art treasures and natural beauty, undersupplied with infrastructure, and continuously struggling against Mafia-driven corruption, Sicily’s complexities sometimes seem unfathomable.

Southern Italy - Sicily (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

- join the ranks of impeccably dressed opera-goers at elegant Teatro Massimo in Paler-mo

- maps

- bargain with fish vendors at dawn, climb Europe’s most active volcano in the afternoon, and return to buzzing nightlife in Catania

- transport

- marvel at the majesty of Segesta’s 5th-century ruins, whose Doric temple sits in splendid isolation on a windswept hillside

- restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Palermo & Around, Tyrrhenian Coast, Cefalù, Aeolian Islands, Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Stromboli, Ionian Coast, Taormina, Catania, Mt Etna, Southeast-ern Sicily, Syracuse, Noto, Modica, Ragusa, Central Sicily & the Mediterranean Coast, Agrigento, Western Sicily, Marsala, Selinunte, Trapani, Erice, Segesta.

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