Sicily , Sicilia in Italian, is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. km and 5 million inhabitants. The Sicily is the greater island of the Mediterranean and is the region more extended and more meridional of Italy. This region faces Calabria over the Strait of Messina, which is the only conterminous region. The volcano Etna, is situated close to Catania. Etna is 10,900 ft high, making it the tallest volcano in Europe. It is also one of the world's most active volcanos. The Strait of Messina, wide less than 3 kilometers, separates from peninsular Italy and the Channel to it of Sicily from the Africa, from which it tos be distant approximately 140 kilometers. The Aeolian islands to the north are administratively a part of Sicily, as are the Aegadian Islands and Pantelleria Island to the west, Ustica Island to the north-west, and the Pelagian Islands to the south-west.Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory: olives and wine are among its other agricultural products. The experience of the festivity, the reading of a popular novel, the participation to one ritual, etc, expresses, between the other, the search and the discovery of the identity of people. Most of Sicily's motorways run through the north of the region - A19 Palermo - Catania, A20 Palermo - Messina, A29 Palermo - Mazara del Vallo and the paid-for A18 Messina - Catania. Much of the motorway network is raised on columns due to the mountainous terrain.
A place of relief in the occupied sicialian economy e' from the tourism, is in the citta' of art, is in the numerous seaside resorts. The road network in the south of the country consists of well maintained, yet not motorway-class roads.Sicily is connected to the Italian peninsula by the national railway company, Trenitalia, though trains are loaded onto ferries for the crossing from the mainland. Officially, the Stretto di Messina, S.p.A. schedules to the second half of 2006 the beginning of construction on the world's longest suspension bridge, The Strait of Messina Bridge Project. It is not possible, in fact, to speak about one earth without to make reference its folklore: it means you of a song, of a sideboard or of a show, they reveal the same feeling of belongings to the group, in case are known and shared. If and when completed, it will mark the first time in history that Sicily has been connected by a land link to Italy.Sicily is served by national and international flights from to Palermo International Airport and Catania-Fontanarossa Airport. There are also minor national airports in Trapani and small islands of Pantelleria and Lampedusa. Sicily's principal cities include the regional capital Palermo, together with the other provincial capitals Catania, Messina, Syracuse Siracusa in Italian, Trapani, Enna, Caltanissetta, Agrigento, Ragusa. Other famous Sicilian towns include Acireale, Taormina, Giardini Naxos, Piazza Armerina, Caltagirone, Cefalù, Bronte, Marsala, Corleone, Castellammare del Golfo, Gela, Francavilla di Sicilia, and Abacaenum, Corleone. The position of Sicily as a stepping stone of sorts in the center of the Mediterranean Basin has lent it strategic importance throughout history, resulting in an endless procession of settlers and conquerors.
Modern methods of genetic testing enable us to see which have had the greatest demographic impact. The most famous, however, are Luigi Pirandello, Giovanni Verga, Salvatore Quasimodo, Gesualdo Bufalino and the dialectal poet Ignazio Buttitta. The vaguely triangular island has shape with the two long sides that show oneself on the Tyrrhenian Mar to north and the Channel of Sicily hotels to south, and the short side that shows oneself on the Mar lonio to east. The provinces sicialian are: Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa and Trapani.
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