Classic Sicily Blog

Tìndari is a fraction of Patti, an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Messina, in Sicily. The inhabitants are called tindàridi, tindaroti, tindaritani, tindaridei (in homage to the Dioscuri sons of Tindaro); in Sicilian tinnaroti. Tindari is located on a coastal promontory that protrudes, from a height of 268 m, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea […]

Lentini is an Italian town of 22.908 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Syracuse in Sicily. Baroque town of Greek origin, ancient Leontinoi, of which the archaeological remains can be visited, was a very valuable cultural and agricultural center during Roman rule and one of the most influential cities of the island in the […]

Vittoria is an Italian town of 63.746 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Ragusa in Sicily. It is, after the capital, the most populated municipality in the whole of Ragusa, ranking ninth in Sicily and ninety-seventh in Italy. Founded in 1607, Vittoria is the youngest city of the free municipal consortium, and therefore has […]

Augusta is an Italian town of 35.745 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Syracuse in Sicily. Augusta owes its name to its great past as an imperial city, founded in the fourteenth century by Frederick II of Swabia, the emperor-intellectual of the German Empire who loved the wonderful landscapes of southern Italy more than […]

Acireale is an Italian town of 51.886 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Catania in Sicily,  formed by small migrations from the territory to the south, today the urban layout is typical of the late medieval cities of Sicily. It rises in the middle of the Sicilian Ionian coast, and is known, in particular, for […]

Cefalù is an Italian town of 14.307 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Palermo in Sicily. It is a very ancient city and even seems to have been founded a thousand years before the birth of Christ; the first colonies would have been created by the Greeks who landed there in the fifth century BC. […]

Caltagirone is an Italian town of 37.953 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Catania in Sicily. It is the fifth most populous municipality in the metropolitan city and the first by territorial extension. It has been a bishopric since 1816. It is the head of a vast and historic area of ​​the province of Catania, […]

Sciacca is an Italian town of 44.104 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Agrigento in Sicily. Rich in monuments and churches, it is the most populous municipality in the province after the capital. It is known among other things for its historic carnival and for its pottery. Sciacca is one of the most famous […]

Modica is an Italian town of 54.169 inhabitants of the free municipal consortium of Ragusa in Sicily. Its position is already fascinating: it rises on the top of a canyon and to reach it from Ragusa you pass on very high and panoramic viaducts that overlook the gorges. Modica boasts a rich repertoire of gastronomic […]

Capital of the homonymous Sicilian province, it has about sixty-three thousand inhabitants. It rises to the left of the Salso, in the area between the Matarazzo and Pisciacane mountains, in the Erei Mountains region, on the slopes of Monte San Giuliano. Located in the Sicilian hinterland, in terms of resident population it is the ninth […]

Enna is an Italian municipality of 26.755 inhabitants. It was called Castrogiovanni until 1927, the year in which it resumed the ancient name of Enna. It is known for being the highest provincial capital in Italy, due to the altitude of the inhabited center which stands at 931 m at the Town Hall, and it […]

Syracuse is a city on the Ionian coast of Sicily, known for the ruins of antiquity. The central Archaeological Park of Neapolis contains the Roman amphitheatre, the Greek Theater and the Ear of Dionysius, a cave carved out of limestone in the shape of a human ear. The Regional Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi displays terracotta […]