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Gole dell’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 e il suo Pistacchio

Bronte, the Italian capital of the pistachi0  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 harvest the ...
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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 the ...
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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 1606 ...
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Catania

It 's extended between the Ionian and the base of' Mount Etna in Sicily's second city that has always lived in close relationship with the volcano to start from the material with which it was built, stone lavica. I highlights of Catania as Piazza Duomo: Lively city, lies at the confluence of the main arteries ...
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Etna

Etna is part of the landscape and nature of Sicily. Sciascia called it "a huge house cat that purr quietly and occasionally wakes up." For walkers and nature lovers, Etna offers surprises that the snow combines fire and vegetation. The largest volcano in Europe and born only a couple of million years ago. lava flows, ...
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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 ...
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Siracusa

It's a site of great importance both economically and cultural level. Starting with the Neolithic cultures, through the Corinthians who founded the Greek civilization, to get to the baroque city, the history of Syracuse is clearly visible for travelers from all over the city. One of the sites to visit is the 'Ear of Dionysius, ...
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Mazzaro' Taormina mare

Mazzarò: is the beach of Taormina, you can reach by cable car and the road to state Catania-Messina. From water from the Bay of Mazzaro Beautiful can reach other interesting places on the coast: the Blue Grotto, Isola Bella one of the most exclusive area, even for its emerald green sea.
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I tesori della Sicilia a Taormina

Il nome  antico della Sicilia era “Trinacria”da isola triangolare. L’isola è bagnata da tre mari diversi con l’aggiunta dell’entroterra,ogni zona dell’isola ha caratteristiche particolari che danno vita ad una regione varia e affascinante allo stesso tempo. Ecco alcune delle città e dei luoghi più belli da visitare: Taormina: Dal periodo di pasqua ad ...
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