Sicily
Sicily is a large island in the Mediterranean Sea in the south of Italy. It has a triangular shape and extends for 300km from east to west and 200km from north to south. The terrain consists to a large extent of hills and mountains. The highest mountain is Mt Etna (3320m), an active volcano in the east of the island. Sicily has been settled since prehistoric times. Greeks started setting up colonies in 750 BC, followed by the Carthaginians and later the Romans. Over the course of the centuries Sicily has been ruled by a number of different people. As a consequence of this, Sicily has rich cultural and historical heritage with lots of sites of interest. The Sicilian economy nowadays is less developed than the Italian average. The major sectors are agriculture and tourism.
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49 photos of Mt Etna, the tallest European volcano, located in the east of Sicily
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63 photos of Palermo, the capital of the autonomous region of Sicily
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50 photos of Siracusa on the coast of southwestern Sicily, the most important Magna Grecia city in ancient times
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38 photos of the Valley of the Temples near Agrigento, one of the most significant archaeological sites of ancient Greece
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22 photos of Modica, one of the Sicilian baroque towns famous for its impressive architecture
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39 photos of Selinunte, a large archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily dating back to the Greek period
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18 photos of Taormina, a small city on the western Sicilian coast, with an impressive Greek theatre and great views of the Ionian sea
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23 photos of Cefalu, a picturesque small town on the northern coast of Sicily
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14 photos of Erice, a small picturesque medieval city near Trapani in western sicily
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20 photos of the Monreale cathedral near Palermo
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