SICILY
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region with special status. Island consists of Italy, as well as from Sicily, the Aeolian, the Egadi by Pelagie, Ustica and Pantelleria. It is the largest region in Italy (25,710 km ²) and its largest island.
Palermo and its capital is inhabited by more than 5 million people that makes it, despite the large size, the largest island of the Mediterranean's most densely populated after Malta. It is one of the most important tourist destinations of Europe and in the eighteenth century was the last leg of the Grand Tour, the trip that the young English aristocrats made in Europe to educate themselves.
COASTS
The northern coast, high and rocky, open the Tyrrhenian Sea with frequent and large bays, such as the Gulf of Castellammare del Golfo, Palermo, Termini Imerese, Capo d'Orlando to Patti, Milazzo, Campobello di Mazara . East of the Ionian coast is more varied; narrow pebble beaches almost to Taormina and from the mouth of the river Alcantara and Ripon; south indented with bays and coves such as Naxos, Acireale as lava, and rugged coastline basaltic to Catania. The wide gulf of Catania has a golden sandy beach at its end but the coast to be resumed with a series of rocky fjords including that of Brucoli. So the wide bay of Augusta, home to the largest seaport of Sicily and the Gulf of Syracuse where the coast to be resumed until almost sandy Cape Passero. The extensive southern coastline, mainly characterized by a low and sandy coast, has a single recess of interest: the Gulf of Gela overlooked three provinces: Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Ragusa.
PALERMO
The pearl of Sicily.
AGRIGENTO
Temple of Concordia
CATANIA
RAGUSA
RAGUSA
VOLCANO
