“To have seen Italy without seeing Sicily is not having seen Italy at all. Sicily is the key to everything" Goethe
Our wonderful land was populated from different populations: Phoenicians, Romans, Arabics, Normans, French, Spanish, Austrians and other. Each of these left important testimonies. Every style and every art style has a clear representation in Sicily; just for example: the Greek- roman Theater of Taormina, the temples of Agrigento and Segesta, the Norman Cathedral of Cefalù, the baroque Cathedral of Noto and much other churches and palaces of Palermo, Catania, Syracuse, Ragusa and the other sicilian cities. Few lines can’t be esaustive of so rich history but are essential to understand from where the richeness and the variety of the culture and traditions are produced. A clear example of this complexity is the ancient name of the island. The most ancient name is Sicania referred to the name of its first inhabitants, Siculi in the west and Sicani in the est part. In the Odyessey, one of the most important Omero's poems, he called it Trinakie (Isle with a tringular shape) and in the Middle Age, Dante Aligheri, in the “Divine Comedy”, spoke about Trinacria refering to its three principal promontories.
