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Italy is made up of 20 regions. Each region is made up of provinces, each with limited autonomy. Below are the regions covered by this site. click on a city to begin Lazio Rome Vatican Tivoli Orvieto Rocca Massima Tuscany Florence Fiesole Cortona Campania Naples Salerno Sorrento Pompeii Paestum Capri Umbria Bologna Perugia Gubbio Spoleto Sicily Palermo Cefalù Agrigento Corleone Maps from ontheworldmap.com
Cities / Sicily - Palermo / Uncategorized
by Rich Olimpio · Published November 3, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
Cefalù is located on the Tyrrhenian(northern) coast of Sicily. It has Greek roots which go back to at least the beginning of the fourth century B.C. Today it is a picturesque beach resort town. From Palermo you take an hour and a half train ride along the coast to reach Cefalù. Beaches are what Cefalù is known for today. The beautiful blue Mediterranean and wide soft beaches. The beach town attracts tourists from Italy and some European countries and it...
Cities / Sicily - Palermo / Uncategorized
by Rich Olimpio · Published November 3, 2020 · Last modified December 13, 2020
Agrigento is located on the southern coast of Sicily, overlooking the Mediterranean. It was one of the most import cities of Magna Graecia, settled by the Greeks at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. For comparison, when it was settled, Rome was less than 100 years old and still just a group of huts on the Palatine hill. At it’s peak it had between 100,000 and 200,000 residents. After battles of the Punic war and other invaders, it declined...
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