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The definitive travel guide for Palermo and northwestern Sicily. Sights, hotels, restaurants, shopping, tours. Come See Palermo at SeePalermo.Com.

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Locality Index

Agrigento Himera Noto Siracusa
Caltanissetta Lipari Palermo Solunto
Catania Marsala Piazza Armerina Taormina
Cefalù Messina Ragusa Termini Imerese
Enna Monreale Sciacca Tindari
Erice Morgantina Segesta Trapani
Ficuzza Mount Etna Selinunte

Visit Monreale's splendid Norman-Arab cathedral. Sciacca is a charming Baroque city near the sea. Ragusa is one of Sicily's undiscovered treasures. Noto is the epitome of the Sicilian Baroque. More than Marsala wine. Visit nearby Mozia, an ancient Phoenician city. Trapani has beaches, windmills, salt marshes and beautiful sunsets. Erice has beautiful hilltop castles overlooking the Sea. Beautiful Selinunte has the ruins of several ancient Greek temples. The Lipari Islands offer great beaches and great food. Siracusa was one of the greatest cities of the ancient Greek world. Charming Agrigento has an ancient Greek city and temples surrounded by almond and olive groves. Piazza Armerina has a Roman patrician's villa with beautiful mosaics. Enna's hilltop fortress offers a panoramic view that you'll never forget. Plan to spend at least two days discovering Palermo's past. Legacy of the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. Tindari's classical Roman ambience overlooks the Sea. Etna is Europe's greatest natural wonder. Don't miss it! Segesta has one of the world's best-preserved Greek temples. Taormina has ancient Greek architecture, a medieval ambience and a view of Etna and the coast make it unique. Old Caltanissetta offers a good glimpse of Sicily's rural heritage. Termini Imerese is the charming gateway to the Imera Temple and Caccamo Castle. Cefalu has a beautiful medieval cathedral, good shopping, delicious food and a great beach. For the Crusaders, Messina was the gateway to the Holy Land. A large Baroque city with a Roman pedigree, Catania is Palermo's assertive junior sibling. Locality Map


About This Index: Listed above are the names of cities, towns or geographic regions (such as Mount Etna) throughout Sicily which have sights or monuments of particular natural, historical or archeological interest. Wine regions of Sicily.These are also indicated on the map. Also mentioned are certain localities which, though not inhabited today, are identified with ancient or medieval settlements, such as Solunto. If you're searching for a certain kind of place, but don't know where to find it, check out Sights to See, which lists interesting sights and monuments by category (for example, castles, Greek temples, Roman cities, medieval churches, beaches), with links to locality pages where these attractions are described. The road map of Sicily provides a more detailed view of localities in Sicily. Other localities (Gela, Castelbuono, etc.) and regions (Nebrodi and Madonie mountains) are occasionally mentioned in connection with articles published in our online magazine or may be found by searching this site.

The wine page includes a list of wines produced in Sicily based on viticultural regions (denomination of origin) corresponding to geographic features or localities, and the Palermo page identifies districts of that large city.

We cannot respond to emails inquiring about specific localities in Sicily. For detailed information about specific, small cities and towns try a search engine search on Google using the name of the town and country, for example Mistretta+Italy. The events page lists annual events around Sicily.


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