Sicily is made for dropping off the map - and there's no better place than on the beaches of the island's southern coast.

Beautiful bedrooms with private balconies that look out to one of the best views in Sicily will cocoon you ... Des Étrangers during his Grand Tour of Italy. Located on the oldest part of Syracuse ...

Then I found out that the author is well known not just in Sicily but also in Italy. She is sometimes compared, favourably, to that other author who also carries what we would think a Maltese surname, ...

More than just a fun day trip from the mainland, Sicily is quietly one of the most stunning, historic places in the world.

Julia Martins Miranda, the owner of a loft in a former monastery, has given it a vibrant transformation using the bright ...

The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the landscape of ...

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The rock deposits and eroded hills in this part of Sicily, a region of Italy, are the first land-based evidence found for the megaflood, says Paul Carling at the University of Southampton in the UK.

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Odysseus’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around ...