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Sicilia
Sun-baked baroque towns, sagre in every piazza, and a coastline that feels endless.
Sicilia is Italy at its most layered — Greek temples above almond groves, baroque towns rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake, and Arab-Norman cathedrals in Palermo and Monreale. It's also Italy's sagra heartland: from the Sagra del Cous Cous in San Vito Lo Capo to Modica's chocolate festival and countless village feasts for the local saint, the summer and autumn calendar is one long series of piazza dinners. Townlet Italia curates the sagre worth planning a trip around, the family wineries on the slopes of Etna that welcome visitors, the artisan workshops still making ceramics in Caltagirone and coral jewellery in Trapani, and the hidden coves along the western coast that never make the guidebooks. If you're looking for authentic things to do in Sicilia beyond Taormina and the Valley of the Temples, start with the meetups and food experiences hosted by locals here — a cannoli-making class in Palermo, a tuna-fishing tradition on Favignana, or a slow lunch in a Modica farmhouse.
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Donnafugata – Contessa Entellina Estate
Sicilian family winery in the hills of Contessa Entellina working with native grape varieties and offering tastings by booking.
Contessa Entellina
Planeta – Ulmo Estate
Planeta's historic Sicilian estate beside Lake Arancio with vineyards, olive groves, cellar tours and countryside tastings.
Sambuca di Sicilia
Villa Romana del Casale
A late Roman villa near Piazza Armerina holding the richest mosaic floors surviving from antiquity.
Piazza Armerina
Valley of the Temples
A vast Greek archaeological park above Agrigento, with a ridge of Doric temples facing the sea.
Agrigento
Alcantara Gorges
A dramatic basalt canyon carved by the Alcantara river on the slopes of Mount Etna in eastern Sicily.
Catania
Taormina Ancient Theatre
A Hellenistic theatre cut into the hillside of Taormina, framing Etna and the Ionian Sea.
Taormina