The Essence
of Sicily
Enjoy a customizable Best of Sicily Tour. Start from Palermo, Taormina and from Catania with a private Guide Driver. Private Sicily tours with a Guide Driver is the best you can opt for a trip to Sicily. All private Sicily tours may be customized and arranged in agreement to your schedule. Travel from west to east and also from north to south. Further visit the highlights and culture of the island. Finally the delicious cuisine and first-class wines.
The beautiful island of Sicily is poised between Europe and Africa. Further it has also seen many invaders. Nearly all of whom have left their mark in art in addition to a unique architecture. Certainly it is also a land of myth and enigma. Also Pagan below the Catholic surface. Furthermore troubled by the shadow of the Mafia. Pestilence, earthquakes, wars, insurrections and volcanic eruptions have played important parts in its dramatic history. Including some of the world’s best-preserved Ancient Greek ruins.
The largest island in the Mediterranean is also one of the most culturally and geographically diverse regions of Italy. The island’s giddying sequence of conquering kingdoms left behind also enthralling architectural remnants. Sicily’s eclectic history, including Greek, Arab, Norman, Spanish, and English influences. It is represented in its unique cuisine and fascinating variety of architecture. And a lovely scenery plus great food. Eat this: Arancini (deep fried rice balls). All versions of eggplant, especially caponata. Furthermore dishes that include sardines and definitely cannoli. In summer a refreshing granita is the better choice.
Sicily’s eclectic history is represented in its fascinating variety of architecture and in its unique cuisine and great food.
Sicily is also located in the heart of the Mediterranean. At the intersection of civilization’s greatest cardinal points. Nonetheless its vulnerable, beautiful coastline is a permeable membrane. It has also enabled the passage of people and ideas for millennia. As those foreign influences accumulated, they created the base of the ever-fluid Sicilian identity. One both hospitable and protective of regional character. They are also among the Mediterranean’s most prolific farmers with grapevines planted across the island.
The island’s giddying sequence of conquering kingdoms left behind enthralling architectural remnants
Furthermore Sicily’s culture has been richly shaped by adversity. Pestilence, earthquakes, wars, also insurrections. And volcanic eruptions have played important parts in its dramatic history. The island’s giddying sequence of conquering kingdoms left behind enthralling architectural remnants. Including some of the world’s best-preserved Ancient Greek ruins. Sicily boasts a huge variety of excellent wines In addition to superb traditional dishes.
“I do not envy God’s paradise because I am so satisfied to live in Sicily“
Frederic II of Swabia
Sicily is the Mediterranean’s largest island. Also placed right at its centre. It is certainly among the most richly influenced by those civilizations that have reached its shores. From the Greeks to the Arabs and all those European dominators. Who at times were also smitten by it. They all have held the crown, from the Norman and Swabian to the French and Spanish.