Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Sicily Holidays

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is a independent region of Italy. It is popular for its amazing scenic beauty which draws a lot of guests worldwide. This beautiful countryside scenery is elegantly visible on the tip of Italy"s toe and as it is surrounded by water on all the sides makes it appear more elegant which immensely satisfies the tourists and the visitors. It is a region of exclusive art, culture, food, traditions and design. It has greenery all around and gives a appearance of a countryside rural area that has considerably drawn many of tourists. Sicily is liked and respected for its natural beauty. Sicily is not just originally stunning but even has historic archeology and ancient monuments, temples and forts that add up to its beauty. If you are preparing your holidays at Sicily, it"s the best thought.

Due to its geographic position it has a Mediterranean climate where the summers are warm, hot and dry, winters are warm and wet as this region gets rainfall during winters. Sicily is generally a vivid land receiving a lot of sunshine mostly all through the year. This island has bright and lively sunny days and at sunset Sicily looks amazingly attractive as the sun sets behind the wonderful mountains. This scene is most pleasurable on the sparkling beaches of Sicily, La Spiagga is a popular beach where tourists enjoy the enjoyable day time and the blissful evening sunset.

Sicily is famous for its traditions and culture which can evidently depicted through the cuisine, arts and architecture and the language that the locales of Sicily speak. This island is especially noted for its cuisines and wines and thus famously called God"s Kitchen. The food variety is pure and conventional and quiet affordable too, so you won"t find a trouble in trying all types of food specialties cooked there. The cuisines of Sicily comprise a variety of dishes cooked by using fresh fruits and vegetables which are healthy and are spiced with a topping of the traditional herbs and spices of Sicily, the savor and the taste is splendid. These mouth-watering dishes include a range of fresh vegetables like tomatoes, artichokes, olives, citrus, apricots, aubergines, onions, beans, raisins along with the freshly caught sea-food which include tuna fish, sea bream, cuttlefish, sea bass, swordfish, sardines etc.. These are cooked by easy and conventional methods. Not only these, the sweet dishes like Cannoli, a variety of Doughnuts, Bucellato, Ciarduna, Pignoli, bruccellati, sesame seed cookie are also awesome, to get the true rich taste of all these unique cuisines it is excellent to visit Sicily. They use a lot of cheese and a range of spices like saffron, nutmeg, cloves, pepper and cinnamon which add taste to their food. Parsley is used in almost all the dishes. So all food lovers your search is over, enjoy the conventional food at Sicily.

Sicily is rich in arts which is revealed by its popular paintings, sculptures and several poets, musicians, philosophers who have left their identity from the Greek rule. People of Sicily are bilingual; they speak a different language called the Romance Language which originates from Indo-European language family which includes all the languages basically from Latin, an historic language from Rome. Sicily people usually speak the traditional Romance Language. Its awesome artistic hotels give you a pleasant and relaxed stay. So enjoy your holidays at Sicily.

Hence, feel the “Garden of Mediterraneana and observe Sicily"s pleasant and traditional way of living. You can land at any three airports of Sicily, the Catania-Fontanarossa Airport which is busiest of other two, Palermo International Airport which is bigger as compared to Trapani-Birgi Airport. Well the size of the airports barely matter, as far as you reach Sicily and enjoy its true tradition and natural beauty to its fullest.

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