Insight Guides Sicily (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781839053481
• eBook ISBN:
  9781839053764
• Edition: 8
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Sicily and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, this Sicily guidebook is just the tool you need to accompany you before or during your trip. Whether it's deciding when to go, choosing what to see or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Palermo and  Mount Etna, it will answer all the questions you might have along the way. It will also help guide you when you'll be exploring the Aeolian Islands. or discovering the Valley of the Temples on the ground. Our Sicily travel guide was fully-updated post-COVID-19.

The Insight Guide SICILY covers: Palermo, Palermo province, Trapani province, the Egadi Islands and Pantelleria, Agrigento and the Valley of the Temples, Agrigento province, Caltanissetta province, Enna province, Ragusa province, Siracusa, Siracusa province, Catania, Mount Etna and the Catania province, Taormina, Messina province, the Aeolian Islands.

In this guide book to Sicily you will find:

IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES  
Created to provide a deeper dive into the culture and the history of Sicily to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics.

BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice featured in this Sicily guide book highlight the most special places to visit.

TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Sicily as well as an introduction to Sicily's food and drink, and fun destination-specific features.  

PRACTICAL TRAVEL INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything, from when to go to Sicily, how to get there and how to get around, to Sicily's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more.

COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of the destination, from Palermo province to Siracusa province, has its own colour assigned for easy navigation of this Sicily travel guide.

CURATED PLACES, HIGH-QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text, cross-referenced against full-colour, high-quality travel maps for quick orientation in Taormina, Palermo, and many other locations in Sicily..

STRIKING PICTURES
This guide book to Sicily features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Valley of the Temples and spectacular Mount Etna.

Table of contents

• How To Use This E-Book
• Sicily’s Top 9 Attractions
• Editor’s Choice
• A Volcanic Heritage
• The Sicilians
• The Shaping of Sicily
• Decisive dates
• Insight: Building for Posterity
• The Mafia
• Food and Wine
• Wild Places
• Places
• Palermo
• Insight: A Flowering of Flamboyance
• Palermo Province
• Insight: The Arab-Norman Legacy
• Trápani Province
• The Egadi Islands And Pantelleria
• Agrigento And The Valley Of The Temples
• Agrigento Province
• Insight: Festivals Sacred and Profane
• Caltanissetta Province
• Enna Province
• Ragusa Province
• Siracusa
• Siracusa Province
• Insight: The Art of Puppetry and Painted Carts
• Catania
• Mount Etna And Catania Province
• Taormina
• Messina Province
• The Aeolian Islands
• Transport
• A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information
• Language
• Further Reading