Etna Volcano is part of the landscape and nature in Sicily. The poet Sciascia called it “a huge house cat that snores quietly and occasionally wakes up.” For walkers and nature lovers, Etna offers surprises that at the snow combines fire and vegetation. The biggest volcano in Europe is born only a couple of million …
Excursions Alcantara Gorges
Excursion of Alcantara and its surroundings ITINERARY -ALCANTARA GORGE The Alcantara gorge is situated in the Alcantara valley in Sicily. The gorge stretches up to 25 metres high and is wide, at its narrowest point 2 metres and its widest point 4-5 metres. This natural canyon, on the contrary to common belief, is not the ...
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Mazzaro’ Taormina mare
Famous touristic place for climate and beautiful beaches, the Lido of Mazzarò has grown from an ancient settlement of fishermen. The bay faces the Ionian Sea, surrounded by bright colors or blue depending on water depth, or from the different angle of sunlight. Mazzarò (alias Taormina mare) is a coastal fraction of Taormina. Tourists have ...
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Gole Alcantara
The Alcantara gorges are located in the omonymous valley in Eastern Sicily.They are about 25 metres high and between 2 and 5 metres wide.Alcantara gorges is not only gorge it is beautiful natural landscape and attraction for many visitors. Around 2400 BC this natural monument of balast rock was created by the eruption of the ...
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Bronte and Pistacchio
Bronte the Italian capital of the pistacchio Sicily is the only place in Italy where pistachios are grown, and have become quite expensive due to their limited production. Pistachio cultivation in Sicily is laborious work. The trees only bear fruit every two years and are planted in areas that prevent the use of machines to ...
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Ferrovia Circumetnea
Ferrovia Circumetnea represents today, the only railway reality with narrow gauge in exercise in all the Sicily, being been, in the time, sluices or abandoned all the other similar railroads. When, about in 1880, was gone delineating the skeleton of the sicialian railway net, in many centers borned requests for the connection on track with ...
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Staircase of Caltagirone
The scale of Santa Maria del Monte for the architectural magnificence and artistic beauty , is the emblematic monument of the city of Calatgirone. It Was opened in the early '600 with a clear and dramatic demolition of the medieval urban to join the plan for the new Town Hall directly to the church. In ...
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Palermo
Developed at the foot of Monte Pellegrino, Palermo owes its name to the sea that wets the city in fact is called "Panormos" that means port. One of the largest city square is Piazza Marina, near the sea but more distant from the most famous monuments . In the Middle Ages it was used for ...
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