Sicily Travel tourism

Sicily, the island of a thousand colors, "volcanic earth" with its characteristic dominated by Etna plume of smoke, a region rich in art and culture.
Messina, "the door of Sicily" the windy Trapani, is a whole series of important archaeological sites. Not forgetting the beautiful Aeolian islands, the Egadi, the solitary Ustica, Lampedusa and Linosa, which surround the island from end to major.
Ancient treasures, but also the clear water and teeming with fish, a favorite destination for many divers, the sun, "faithful companion" of the region and the beautiful beaches.
And yet, the fine ceramics, true works of art. And for those who love cooking, so many traditional recipes handed down faithfully from generation to generation, perhaps matched wines, famous throughout the world.
Do not miss the typical sweets and the traditional almond quashed, all accompanied perhaps by the past.
Sicily a place that does not forget and we would like to return again.
Sicily is an autonomous region with special status, part of Italy insular. With its 25,710 kilometers ² is the largest region of Italy, and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
The history of Sicily has been influenced by the many rulers who have passed on its soil. Due to its geographical location, right in the middle of the Mediterranean, Sicily has had a significant role in historical events that have had players like the people of mare nostrum.
The succession of various civilizations have enriched the Sicily of urban settlements, monuments and ancient monuments that make the region one of the privileged places where history can be relived through the pictures of the signs that time has passed and scratched up today.
Sicily is on the north overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea to the east is divided from Italy by the Strait of Messina and is washed by the Ionian Sea, south-west Africa is divided from the channel of Sicily.
Has a form of "triangle" whose corners are Peloro (or Punta del Faro) at Messina, at the top north-eastern Cape Boeo (or Lilibeo) in Marsala, the Summit Northwest Portopalo Capo Passero, at the summit south.
For the triangular shape, Sicily in ancient times was called Triquetra or Trinacria.
Because of its location, the region and its surrounding islands are affected by intense volcanic activity. The most important volcanoes: Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano, and have the peculiarity of being three different types of eruptions of basaltic lavas interspersed with periods of calm on the first, continuous eruptions, and lava fountains, the second, whose characteristics are been taken as a typological model by scientists in the field, who coined the term "Strombolian to describe similar activities of terrestrial volcanoes, and finally the explosive type, or Pliny the third, which is characterized by long periods of apparent calm and violent eruptions. Also please note that the eruptive activity in the nineteenth century, the area of the Strait of Sicily today named bench Graham, has led to the birth of the ephemeral island Ferdinandea.
The territory of Sicily also includes several smaller islands, such as the Aeolian archipelago and Ustica north, and that of Egadi west and south, the islands of Pantelleria, Lampedusa and Linosa, and other minorities.
The archipelago which includes the island of Malta is geographically (but not politically) an integral part of Sicily. Malta, however, was united politically with Sicily until 1798, when it was occupied (for about two years) by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Pelagie Islands, however, are geographically linked to Tunisia, but politically part of the province of Agrigento.