East Sicily: what to see plus the best bars, beaches, restaurants and hotels
(The Guardian Travel News)

With baroque palaces, fine beaches and Mount Etna, the Ionian coast is home to most of the island´s crown jewels - underpinned by glorious local food and drinkLight reflecting off churches and palaces, views of craggy mountains and blue sea, smells of orange blossom, oregano and mint ... Sicily is an inspiring place, particularly for northern Europeans. `To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all,` said German writer Goethe in 1787. Continue reading...