{"id":31572,"date":"2018-09-13T19:06:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italia-by-natalia.pl\/?p=31572"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:53:29","slug":"most-beautiful-towns-cities-attractions-sicily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italia-by-natalia.pl\/en\/most-beautiful-towns-cities-attractions-sicily\/","title":{"rendered":"The most beautiful towns, cities, and attractions of Sicily. Subjective guidebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The most beautiful town of Sicily, five years ago, I called tiny Castelmola on the blog. But there are a lot of similar gems on the island, and many questions, that’s why today I present to you a subjective guideline “The most beautiful towns, cities, and attractions of Sicily”, in which I gathered only my own experience. What qualifications do I have to write such an article? Nine trips to the island with a total length of almost six months over the years 2001-2018. In the spring, summer, autumn, winter. A two-way detour around the island. Sightseeing cities, towns, nature parks, mountain trails. Boat trips along the coast or around the islands. Rushing rivers, lakes, and the wilderness of the interior. But above all, the heart. The heart left on this island already seventeen years ago, when it was not yet fashionable and the journey to it required a lot of effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It used to be different or trips to Sicily at the beginning of the century<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I traveled to Sicily in a time when it was not fashionable. I traveled when there were no cheap airlines, and traditional tickets cost more or less 1000 euro, and they were out of the reach to most people. I traveled for almost two days by a coach in one direction. I traveled to Sicily at a time when people in Poland, when they heard the name of the Island, saw “The Godfather”, exploding bombs and whistling bullets. When the educated and well-educated people in the world said: why do you go to Sicily, people travel there on donkeys, even on the highways! Really? So why are they driving the highway?  … I do not know. Do not go to Sicily, you will be kidnapped by the mafia and sold as a living commodity. Do not go to Sicily, you will be killed by the volcano, this Vesuvius. What?  …  Oh well, Etna? Do not go to Sicily, civilization ends in Rome, there is only a wilderness. In Sicily, I paid in liras as a teenager I watched the changes of the island over the last seventeen years, including the very difficult situation of residents after the introduction currency in euro, when in 2002 prices in this poor region drastically jumped up, one of my friends left Sicily in search of a job but it stick in his gizzard. It has changed a lot and mostly for the better. A lot of people are complaining today about the trash, but if you saw the towns, cities, and attractions of Sicily in the past. My beloved Syracuse has changed so that I rub my eyes in amazement. I remember the cathedral and palaces in Piazza del Duomo before cleaning the facade and the cafes there without high prices. But Taormina has hardly changed at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourist attractions of Sicily. What to see?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sicily is a large and very rich region with all kinds of attractions. There are plenty of amateurs of sea bathing, as well as fans of mountain trails on the island. There is no shortage of monuments of antiquity, medieval castles and towns, masterpiece of the Renaissance and the Baroque, especially the Sicilian one, that is, extremely beautiful and intense. Mountain, rivers, gorges, canyons, volcanoes. Yes, volcanoes, because apart from Etna there are also Vulcano and Stromboli. Small islets scattered around Sicily aren’t easy to count: Lampedusa<\/a>, Linosa, Lampione<\/a>, Pantalleria, Marettimo, Levanzo<\/a>, Favignana, Ustica, Alicudi, Filicudi, Salina, Vulcano, Lipari<\/a>, Stromboli, Panarea<\/a>. Marine reserves and some of the best diving conditions in Europe can be found on the Aegadian Islands, in the waters of Scopello and the Zingaro Reserve or Ustica Island. What about the beaches? Optional. Long, sandy, and from yellow to almost white to gray and black. Small beaches are hidden in bays, rocky, gravel. Well, wine and kitchen, but its riches and traditions cannot be described in a few sentences. It’s a book-size topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Map of Sicily – division into provinces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The region is administratively divided into nine provinces of various sizes, and this division was decided to use to rank the described towns, cities and attractions of Sicily. I decided that this will be the most readable way for you.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trips to Sicily – how to organize your vacation today?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have September 2018, and Sicily is better for Poles than ever before. First of all, cheap flights. Wizzair flies to Catania on the east coast, Ryanair to Palermo in the north-west, and the fate of flights to Trapani, from which Ryanair withdrew a year ago is on. I keep my fingers crossed for their restoration because the drama of people living in tourism is growing and getting more and more acute. You can come to Palermo by ferry from Naples, Genoa or Livorno or you can come by car. This travel lasts – depending on the place from which you set off – about three days one way. You can travel without stops changing the driver, but believe me, it’s a hassle. But beautiful one (I experienced it twice by car, twice by coach both sides!), because the scenery is breathtaking, especially those in Calabria. Most drivers revile the “Calabrian”, the famous A3 Naples – Reggio di Calabria motorway, but I love it for the great views. Before that, there are Vesuvius and panoramas of Campania, Basilica, Tuscany, and Trentino.<\/p>

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Such views can be seen from the window of an airplane taking off from Falcone-Borsellino Airport in Palermo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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