Do you want to learn about Greece? So come to Sicily.
It is a paradox, for sure, but only to a certain extent.
The Greek cities of Sicily (Agrigento, Selinunte, Segesta,
Syracuse, to mention the most important)Sicilia were
among the most beautiful of the Hellenic world. Nowadays,
to visit the Valley of Temples at Agrigento or to watch
a summer performance in the great Greek Theatre of Syracuse
is to plunge yourself into the remote Hellenic past.
And this is also true
in Sicily for many other historical eras and civilisations,
from the Spanish to the French.
With
the sole exception of Arab rule, which has left scarce
physical testimony. Sicily is a book of history and
art history,
a compendium of the greatest civilisations and cultures
of all time. A sunny island whose landscape is rich
in contrasts, with a splendid coastline and a refined,
delicious and varied cuisine of 
traditional
flavours and exquisite aromas: the quintessence of Mediterranean
culture, yet also dense with intellectual complexity
and refinement, so well represented by the literary
masterpieces of Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa, Leonardo Sciascia, Gesualdo Bufalino and
today, Andrea Camilleri.Every style, every movement
in art is richly represented in Sicily. In cities like
Palermo, Catania, Caltanissetta, Enna, Syracuse, Ragusa,
Trapani, Agrigento, and Messina. And in small towns,
like Cefalù, clustered around its Norman cathedral,
or Noto, with its extraordinary Baroque cathedral, or
Taormina, with its splendid Greco-Roman theatre
Sicilia
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