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La Vuccirìa is an ancient market and neighbourhood in Palermo’s central Castellammare quarter, a maze of pedestrian alleys and small piazzas centred on Piazza Garraffello and Piazza Caracciolo. Despite its dilapidated buildings and graffiti, the clamour of hawkers, food stalls and late-opening bars gives the area a distinctive, enduring vitality.
Gran Cratere della Fossa is a dramatic, 500-metre-wide volcanic crater rising to 386 metres above Vulcano, with active fumaroles, hissing steam vents and vivid yellow sulphur deposits around its ochre-toned interior. The trail from Porto di Levante leads to sweeping views across the Aeolian archipelago, with Mount Etna and Sicily’s northern coast visible on clear days.
Palazzo Biscari is an 18th-century Baroque palace in the historic center of Catania, Sicily, and remains the city's most prominent privately owned historic residence. Built by the Paternò Castello family after the devastating 1693 earthquake, it is celebrated for its lavish interiors, monumental architecture, and continued role as a venue for guided tours, concerts, exhibitions, and cultural events.
Ancient Theatre of Taormina (Teatro antico di Taormina) is a 3rd-century BC Hellenistic theatre located in Sicily, Italy, renowned as the second-largest in the region after Syracuse and celebrated for its horseshoe shape and dramatic views of Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea.
Founded in 1975 by the Association for the Conservation of Popular Traditions, the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum houses more than 5,000 marionettes, hand puppets, shadow puppets and stage machines from around the world. It preserves the largest and most complete collection of Palermo, Catania and Neapolitan pupi, while serving as a centre for safeguarding and sharing the theatrical heritage of Sicily and other puppet traditions.
Vista sul Duomo is an intimate two-room guesthouse in a renovated 1930s building in Ragusa Ibla, combining original features such as traditional pitchstone flooring with modern rooms and a bright breakfast area. Its panoramic outlook over the historic centre, particularly towards the dome of San Giorgio Cathedral, is complemented by breakfasts of pastries, seasonal fruit and Sicilian treats including cannoli and cassatine.
At Sapio, Alessandro and Roberta work with produce from their farm and local producers, using each ingredient as fully as possible while keeping water waste and plastic use to a minimum. Their cooking seeks a distinctive sense of place—enriched by thoughtful outside influences yet rooted in Catania, between Etna’s fire and the Ionian Sea—and has earned the restaurant a Michelin star.
Ristorante La Madia is a two-MICHELIN-Star fine-dining restaurant in Licata, led by chef Pino Cuttaia. Its creative tasting menus reinterpret Sicilian traditions through contemporary techniques, with a strong sense of local ingredients, island memories and flavour, complemented by warm, attentive service and an elegant, intimate atmosphere.
Limu is a fine-dining restaurant in Bagheria where chef Antonino Ferreri presents contemporary cuisine rooted in Sicilian traditions, with seasonal produce, seafood and artisan ingredients refined through polished technique. Its regularly refreshed tasting menus, including a dedicated vegetarian option, are especially valued for their creativity and elegant presentation.
MEC Restaurant, awarded one MICHELIN Star, occupies the renovated, high-tech setting of Palazzo Castrone, an illustrious late-sixteenth-century palazzo in Palermo’s historic centre, a stone’s throw from the Arab-Norman Cathedral. Chef Carmelo Trentacosti, a disciple of Nino Graziano, creates refined dishes with restrained flavours that reveal the scents and tastes of his native land.