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Sicily

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of , located just off the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. Known for its rich history, diverse landscapes, and vibrant culture, Sicily blends Greek, Roman, Arab, and Norman influences.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Palermo and Messina.

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is on the northern coast of the island of Sicily. It is a city with a thousand years of history, beautiful Arab-Norman architecture, amazing food, and lively neighbourhoods.

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is a port in the northeast corner of Sicily. Most visitors are passing through, on the 5-km ferry-crossing to mainland Italy. Although it dates to ancient times, is modern and nondescript.

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is a city of 310,000 people on the eastern coast of Sicily at the foot of , the biggest volcano in Europe. It is the second largest city in Sicily with the metropolitan area reaching one million inhabitants, a major transport hub, economic centre and a university city where you will enjoy a busy downtown and an active nightlife.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Trapani and Messina.

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is the westernmost part of Sicily, a region of rugged coastlines, mountain ranges, and clear Mediterranean waters. The province includes the , the medieval hilltop town of , and ancient sites like and .

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The Metropolitan City of is an administrative division in Sicily, and is the closest to the Italian mainland. For all visitors to Sicily who have made the journey across the entire boot of Italy to Calabria and crossed the Strait of , the…

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The Metropolitan City of is an administrative division in Sicily, . Major tourist destinations include Arab-Norman Palatine Chapel, Church of St.

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The Metropolitan City of on the eastern coast of Sicily, includes the city of , with its ancient centre and Baroque architecture, and the small towns in the Simeto and Dittaino river valleys, the beaches along the Strait of Messina and the winter sports centres on Mount Etna.

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is a province on the southwestern coast of Sicily, , where golden beaches meet rugged hills and ancient ruins. It stretches inland from the crystalline waters of the Sicilian Channel to a scenic, mountainous heartland dotted with olive groves and hilltop villages.

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is a former province in Sicily, , that shares the southeastern tip of the triangular island with Syracuse. Its Baroque towns are a World Heritage Site, and it offers coastal resorts, too.

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is a former province in southeastern Sicily, . includes two UNESCO world heritage sites: the city of and the rock necropolis of Pantalica and the baroque cities of the Val di Noto.

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is a province in Sicily in . The old town of and the excavations of Gela are among the main destinations in the province; nearby are Agrigento with the Valle dei Templi and Piazza Armerina with the Villa Romana del Casale and its magnificent mosaics.

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is a landlocked province in the centre of Sicily, named after its capital, the hilltop city of —the highest provincial capital in Italy. Often overlooked by coastal tourists, this region offers a fascinating journey into Sicily’s ancient heart.

Sicily

Latitude of center
37.5878° or 37° 35′ 16″ north
Longitude of center
14.155° or 14° 9′ 18″ east
Population
4,790,000
Elevation
947 metres (3,107 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1781917332
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2523119
Wiki­data ID
Q1460
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Sicily” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sisilië”
  • Albanian: “Sicilia”
  • Albanian: “Siçilia”
  • Amharic: “ሲኪልያ”
  • Arabic: “صقلية”
  • Aragonese: “Secilia”
  • Aragonese: “Sicilia”
  • Armenian: “Սիցիլիա”
  • Arpitan: “Secila”
  • Arpitan: “Sicilie”
  • Asturian: “Sicilia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Siciliya”
  • Balinese: “Sisilia”
  • Basque: “Sizilia”
  • Bavarian: “Sizilien”
  • Belarusian: “Сіцылія”
  • Belarusian: “Сыцылія”
  • Bengali: “সিসিলি দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “সিসিলি”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिसली”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिसिलिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिसिली”
  • Bosnian: “Sicilija”
  • Breton: “Sikilia”
  • Bulgarian: “Сицилия”
  • Burmese: “စစ္စလီကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Sicília”
  • Cebuano: “Sicilia”
  • Central Bikol: “Sicily”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیسیلیا”
  • Chechen: “Сицили”
  • Chinese: “Sicilia”
  • Chinese: “西西里”
  • Chinese: “西西里大區”
  • Chinese: “西西里岛”
  • Chinese: “西西里島”
  • Chuvash: “Сицили”
  • Cornish: “Sisili”
  • Corsican: “Sicilia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Siciliya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sitsiliya”
  • Croatian: “Sicilija”
  • Czech: “Sicílie”
  • Danish: “Sicilien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sicilya”
  • Dutch: “Sicilië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيسيليا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صقليه”
  • Erzya: “Сицилия”
  • Esperanto: “Sicilio”
  • Estonian: “Sitsiilia maakond”
  • Extremaduran: “Sicilia”
  • Extremaduran: “Sicília”
  • Faroese: “Sisilia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sicily”
  • Finnish: “Sisilia”
  • Finnish: “Sisilian alue”
  • French: “Sicile”
  • Friulian: “Sicilie”
  • Galician: “Sicilia”
  • Georgian: “სიცილია”
  • German: “Autonome Region Sizilien”
  • German: “Sizilien”
  • Greek: “Σικελία”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-sî-lî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sicilia”
  • Hausa: “Sisiliya”
  • Hebrew: “סיציליה”
  • Hindi: “सिसिली”
  • Hungarian: “Szicília”
  • Icelandic: “Sikiley”
  • Ido: “Sicilia”
  • Iloko: “Sicilia”
  • Inari Sami: “Sisilia”
  • Indonesian: “Sisilia”
  • Interlingua: “Sicilia”
  • Interlingue: “Sicilia”
  • Irish: “an tSicil”
  • Irish: “An tSicil”
  • Italian: “Regione Siciliana”
  • Italian: “Sicilia”
  • Italian: “Trinacria”
  • Japanese: “シチリア”
  • Japanese: “シチリア島”
  • Japanese: “シチリア州”
  • Javanese: “Sisilia”
  • Kabyle: “Sičilya”
  • Kazakh: “Сицилия”
  • Kirghiz: “Сицилия”
  • Korean: “시칠리아”
  • Kurdish: “Sîcîlya”
  • Kurdish: “Sîsîlya”
  • Kurdish: “سیسیلیا”
  • Ladin: “Sicilia”
  • Ladin: “Sizilia”
  • Ladino: “Sisilia”
  • Lao: “ຊິຊິລີ”
  • Latin: “Sicilia”
  • Latvian: “Sicīlija”
  • Ligurian: “Siçilia”
  • Ligurian: “Siçillia”
  • Limburgan: “Sicilië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sisilia”
  • Lithuanian: “Sicilija”
  • Lombard: “Sicilia”
  • Low German: “Sizilien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Siciliska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sizilien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Sicilia”
  • Macedonian: “Сицилија”
  • Malagasy: “Sicilia”
  • Malay: “Sicilia”
  • Malay: “Sicily”
  • Malayalam: “Sicilia”
  • Malayalam: “സിസിലി”
  • Maltese: “Sicilia”
  • Maltese: “Sqallija”
  • Maori: “Hihiri”
  • Marathi: “सिचिल्या”
  • Mazanderani: “سیسیل”
  • Mazanderani: “سیسیلی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sicily”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sicilia”
  • Mingrelian: “სიცილია”
  • Mongolian: “Сицили”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “صقلية”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߌߛߌߟߌߦߊ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߌߛߟߌ߫”
  • Narom: “Sicile”
  • Neapolitan: “Sicilia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Siziilien”
  • Northern Luri: “سیسیل”
  • Northern Sami: “Sicilia”
  • Northern Sami: “Sisilia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sicilia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sicilia”
  • Norwegian: “Sicilia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sicília”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܩܠܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sicilia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sícilia”
  • Ossetian: “Сицили”
  • Pampanga: “Sicily”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿਚੀਲੀਆ”
  • Persian: “سیسیل”
  • Picard: “Sicile”
  • Piemontese: “Sicilia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sicilii”
  • Polish: “Sycylia”
  • Portuguese: “Sicília”
  • Pushto: “سيسيلي”
  • Pushto: “سيسيليا”
  • Quechua: “Sicilia”
  • Romanian: “Sicilia”
  • Russian: “Сицилия”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱤᱥᱤᱞᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱤᱥᱤᱞᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱤᱦᱤᱲᱤ-ᱯᱤᱯᱤᱲᱤ”
  • Sardinian: “Sitzìlia”
  • Scots: “Sicily”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sicilia”
  • Serbian: “Сицилија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sicilija”
  • Sicilian: “Riggioni Siciliana”
  • Sicilian: “Riggiuni Siciliana”
  • Sicilian: “Sicilia”
  • Silesian: “Sycylijo”
  • Sindhi: “سسلي”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sisilia”
  • Slovak: “Sicília”
  • Slovenian: “Sicilija”
  • Somali: “Sasiiliya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیسیل”
  • Spanish: “Región de Sicilia”
  • Spanish: “Sicilia”
  • Swahili: “Sisilia”
  • Swedish: “Sicilien”
  • Swiss German: “Sizilie”
  • Tagalog: “Sicilia”
  • Talysh: “Sicilijə”
  • Talysh: “Sicilya”
  • Tamil: “சிசிலி”
  • Tatar: “Сицилия”
  • Telugu: “సిసిలీ”
  • Thai: “แคว้นซิซิลี”
  • Thai: “แคว้นซีชีเลีย”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปกครองตนเองซิซิลี”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཅི་ལི་ཡ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Autonome Region Sizilien”
  • Tsonga: “Sicily”
  • Turkish: “Sicilya Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Sicilya”
  • Uighur: “سىتسىلىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Сицилія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sicilska”
  • Urdu: “صقلیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sitsiliya (orol)”
  • Uzbek: “Sitsiliya”
  • Venetian: “Siciłia”
  • Venetian: “Sicìlia”
  • Vietnamese: “Sicilia”
  • Vlaams: “Sicilië”
  • Volapük: “Sikileän”
  • Walloon: “Sicile”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sicilia”
  • Welsh: “Sisili”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիչիլիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Sisylje”
  • Western Panjabi: “سسلی”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ سسلی”
  • Wu Chinese: “西西里岛”
  • Yakut: “Сициилийэ”
  • Yiddish: “סיציליע”
  • Yoruba: “Sicily”
  • Yue Chinese: “西西里”
  • Zeeuws: “Sicilië”
  • “ma lili Sisilija”
  • “ma Sisilija”
  • “Sicilia”
  • “Sicilie”
  • “Sizégglia”
  • “सिसिली”

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