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Italy has so many faces that a lifetime isn’t enough to see them all. Rome, Florence, and Venice are just the beginning; just around the corner lie Umbria, Puglia, Calabria, and Sardinia places that guidebooks from bookstores barely mention. What to see in Italy depends on what you’re looking for.
In this section, you’ll find guides to Italian cities and regions. What to see, where to eat great food without paying tourist prices, how to get around by train, and why Italy deserves more than just a quick stopover. Sicily has its own sub-section. It’s big enough to warrant one.
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Choose a city or region and start reading. Italy awaits and always has something to offer.
Sicily isn’t just about beaches and pizza. It’s an island that will surprise you with its history, scenery, and people, and we’ve traveled all over it to save you time and hassle. In this section, you’ll find a first-hand guide to Sicily.
You’ll find travel guides, lists of the best beaches, accommodation recommendations ranging from budget apartments to boutique hotels, and an honest look at what to avoid. We’ve written about Palermo, Taormina, Mount Etna, the Egadi Islands, and lesser-known spots that aren’t yet overrun with tourists.
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Choose a destination and let yourself be inspired. Sicily awaits and we’ve already paved the way for you.
It was March 2022 and my colleagues and I were planning our annual nomad trip. The choice fell on Sicily. We booked flights from Vienna to Catania and believed it would be ‘a nice trip to Italy’. Except Sicily isn’t Italy. Or rather – it’s more than Italy. This article...
There are places that leave you in peace. The Aeolian Islands aren’t among them. Just as the Egadi Islands [read more in our guide to the Egadi Islands] left a brutal impression on us, so did the Aeolians. This is where we got up at 3:55 in the morning to...
In 2022 I wrote to myself that I had no expectations of Taormina. Since then I’ve been there 3 times, always out of season, and I’m always glad to go back. For those epic views of Etna and the climb up to the very top of the town. That’s exactly...
Catania waited a long time for tourists. Palermo was always the first choice, Taormina the postcard star. But Catania – Sicily’s second-largest city – is slowly making its case as perhaps the most honest of the three. On every visit we flew into Catania and took our trips from there....
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We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
