Common description

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and the largest region of Italy. It is washed by three seas: the Ionian, Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean. A popular tourist destination since ancient times. So, the town of Syracuse at one time described Cicero as the largest and most beautiful city in ancient Greece. Among other popular resorts - Taormina, Catania, Agrigento, and, of course, the island's capital - Palermo.
Among the main attractions of the island: the active volcano Etna, a huge tourist complex City on the Sea, endless palm groves and citrus plantations, the “mafia town” of Corleone, as well as numerous monuments of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Sicily on map

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