{"id":198,"count":0,"description":"[caption id=\"attachment_9906\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellitalie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/valle-dei-templi-agrigento_6731.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9906\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-9906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellitalie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/valle-dei-templi-agrigento_6731-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Valley of the Temples, Sicily\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> Valley of the Temples, Agrigento[\/caption]\r\n<p class=\"Style11\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Sicily<\/strong> is the largest island in the Mediterranean. In addition to Italian, which is the official language, most inhabitants also speak Sicilian, a language of Latin origin with Arab, Spanish, French and Italian influences.\r\nIts capital is the city of <strong>Palermo<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Style10 Style12\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The island is marked by the many civilizations that settled there throughout history: Greeks, Romans, Normans, Arabs, Spaniards ... they left their mark on the architecture, the customs, but also the Sicilian dialect. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"Style8 Style12\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Although marked by mass tourism and unregulated construction on certain coasts, many regions have remained picturesque. The sometimes desertified hinterland contrasts with the coastline; moreover, most villages experienced a significant exodus from the end of the 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 align=\"left\">Discoveries in Sicily<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palerme-palermo.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palermo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/monreale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monreale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/siracuse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syracuse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/cefalu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cefal\u00f9<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/taormine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taormina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/enna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/erice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/noto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/raguse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ragusa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/modica.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modica<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul class=\"Style8\">\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Archaeological sites of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/agrigente.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valley of the Temples of Agrigento<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/segeste.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Segesta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/piazza-armerina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Villa Romana del Casale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/selinonte.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selinunte<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul class=\"Style10\">\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mount <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/etna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Etna<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicile-sicilia.net\/iles-eoliennes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aeolian Islands<\/a>\r\n<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p align=\"left\">[sicilia-map height=400px custom_tax=\"region_italie=sicile\" max_cluster_radius=20 init_maxzoom=8]<\/p>","link":"https:\/\/www.bellitalie.org\/en\/region_italie\/sicily\/","name":"Sicily","slug":"sicily","taxonomy":"region_italie","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Region Sicily - Bellitalie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellitalie.org\/en\/region_italie\/sicily\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Region Sicily - Bellitalie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Valley of the Temples, Agrigento Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean. 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