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Sicily
- The Infinite Island
Travel in Winter from just EUR 44.00 Day Return
(Inclusive of All Taxes)
Day Return Sunday Special - EUR 44.00 per person
Including Taxes
Day Return Pozzallo from EUR 46.00 per person
including Taxes
Day Return Catania from EUR 66.00 per person including
Taxes
Enjjoy Sicily during the winter months and discover
the Infinite Island!
It is not easy to understand Sicily.
Just like a beautiful woman, Sicily
needs a certain type of approach and cannot be easily
won. All you can do is to let yourself be seduced. Just
as the first Mycenaeans were seduced when they came
this way to buy obsidian and pumice-stone in the Aeolian
Islands, when nothing else was known for cutting and
polishing. Just like the Phoenicians, who along these
very coasts set up their trading stations and left them
in the charge of people taken on in every corner of
the Mediterranean, people who lived in peace, trading
with Siculs, Sicans, and Elymians.
Why were they called Elymians? Ex
limen, in Latin means refugee, driven from home. This
gives an immediate picture of the ancient island civilization.
Everyone was always welcome. Just like the Greeks, seeking
somewhere to live in peace, and hosts of others. As
happens today to many other unfortunates who escape
to these shores, fleeing from poverty, war, famine,
and oppression.
The sea and the islands.
Gems set in a sea of sapphire.
Tears of lava, limestone plains swept
by the wind, sunny lands the colour of bronze: one by
one the islands decorate the Sicilian coast like a string
of pearls on the neck of a beautiful woman. There are
fourteen of these daughters of Sicily, not including
Motya, which at low tide is sometimes linked to the
coast of Marsala. Fourteen paradises of untouched beauty.
Some have an African charm, such as the Pelagie, in
the province of Agrigento, and Pantelleria in the province
of Trapani. Others, the uncontested mistresses of the
sea and its secrets, Levanzo, Favignana, and Marettimo,
form the archipelago of the Egadi in the sea off Trapani.
Further north, in splendid isolation, is Ustica, the
island of Circe, with its unspoilt marine reserve. And
in the Aeolian islands, in the province of Messina,
water meets fire. Here nature still dictates. Its rhythms,
and travellers can let themselves be enchanted by the
magic spell of the fishermen and farmers who inhabit
these isles, the last custodians of the ancient Mediterranean
traditions. The choice is yours - between the lively
throngs on the Aeolian Islands, the peace and quiet
Pelagie, and the perfumes of the Egadi.
The sea is perennially the colour
of sapphire, the domain of dolphins and swordfish. And
so it has been since the dawn of time.
"Who has never desired, at least, to know Sicily? Few people or no
one; the fame of its beauty is universal, and the memory of it has to be
linked to the history of the most widespread civilisations"...
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