Read The Leopard

Greek temples, Arab-Norman cathedrals, baroque towns and Etna — Sicily is a Mediterranean civilisation of its own

Try arancini, the delicious Sicilian fried rice balls stuffed with various fillings like ragù, mozzarella, and peas.

Tornatore's tender love letter to cinema and a Sicilian boyhood — keep tissues nearby for the final reel

Hike the smoking summit of Europe's most active volcano, 3,357 m above the Sicilian coast

Sicily’s raucous capital — Arab-Norman mosaics, baroque decay, and the best street food in Italy

Some of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere — Doric giants strung along a Sicilian ridge

Once the greatest city of the Greek world — a Greek theatre, and the honey-stone island of Ortigia

The capital of Sicilian Baroque — a honey-gold town rebuilt in golden stone after a 1693 earthquake