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DK Eyewitness Sicily Travel Guide

Eyewitness travel guides are packed with color photos and detailed maps and descriptions. Although heavy to carry around, they are great for planning your travels.

Sicily Eyewitness Travel guide is one of the best guidebooks I have come across.

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More than a thousand solar panels are to be set up on land seized from the Mafia in Sicily, officials said Wednesday. ”In place of abandoned villas and farmland we’re providing development,” said the mayor of the town of Campobello di Mazara, Ciro Carava’, stressing that the 1,320 panels would provide valuable cash for Mafia-hit firms after the power it produces is fed into the local system. ”The money will be put into a municipal fund to finance small businesses run by families who have lost relatives to the Mob or been the victims of extortion rackets,” he said. More>>

We have been educated by Sicily???s best craftsmen, from farmers to expert scholars and technicians, about their products. We have walked their land and forged a friendship with their families and employees. We have observed their processes from harvesting to packaging.

The result is that today we can offer you products that are the labor of experience, bringing you the natural taste and scent of the island. Our products are classic Sicilian products, reflecting the authenticity of a land where products are still for the most part organic and prepared using old recipes and preservation machines, methods and means, protecting ancestral secrets handed down for generations. Certain products are indigenous only to Sicily because its extraordinary microclimate dictates that nature entrusted Sicily with unique treasures! More>