If you are thinking about sea, traditions, culture, history and good food for your vacation, here you are, it’s all about Sicily. Sicily is an italian island in south italy.It’s a region full of traditions, the most ancient italian traditions. The capital and the biggest city in Sicily is Palermo, but we advice to visit also places that are not so famous for tourism. But Sicily is well known especially for its landscapes and coastlines.
Tourists are attracted from tourquoise water and baroque style towns.
To discover sicily we advice to rent an apartment.
Renting sicily apartments you will be free to do whatever you want at any time and you can have all the advantages that apartments offers to the tourist.
First of all renting an apartment in Sicily means enter in the real life of people in this place, it’s like to live in Sicily.
The tourism in Sicily has developed thanks to sunny, dry climate, magnificent scenery, cuisine, history, and splendid architectural legacy.What to see in sicily is the Mount Etna famous, the beautiful old town of Taormina and the neighbouring seaside resort of Giardini Naxos draw visitors from all over the world.For wine lovers Sicily is vaery famous because it has an high production of wine more than Hungary, Austria and New Zeland.Sicily cuisine and wines are famous all over the world. Sicily’s dished are made mainly of fresh vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, artichokes, olive oil, citrus, apricots, aubergines, onions, beans, raisins commonly coupled with sea food, freshly caught from the surrounding coastlines, including tuna, sea bream, sea bass etc.As in every italian regions the main dish is made of pasta or rice. In Sicily very famous are Arancini (fried rice balls coated with breadcrumbs).All over the world Sicily is famous for sweet dishes as Cannoli that consist of tube-shaped shells of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling usually containing ricotta cheese, blended with some combination of vanilla, chocolate, pistachio, Marsala wine, rosewater or other flavorings. Some chefs add chopped succade or chocolate chips.Another famous cake is Cassata a round sponge cake, covered with a shell of marzipan, pink and green pastel colored icing, and decorative designs, and moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling similar to cannoli cream.But Sicily is not just about good food, it’s also about art! Many poets, philosophers, writers and painters have roots in Sicily.
The most famous art in Sicily is Terracotta Ceramics, you can find any kind of ceramic souvenir in sicily shops.About Sicily culture the family is very important for people. Family members often live together in the same housing complex, and boys and girls stay at home with their parents until they get married.Wedding is a very important tradition in this culture especially for the Catholic tradition. Has you can read there are so many reason to have a vacation in sicily that you can’t avoid to think about it.
Friday, October 09, 2009
It's all about Sicily
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