Just two miles from mainland Italy across the Strait of Messina, the island of Sicily has such a rich, distinct identity, it can feel like an entirely separate country. This identity has been ...

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” will be partly filmed in Sicily which, according to scholars, was a location for Odysseus’ wanderings in the epic composed by Homer around ...

Successively colonised by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Sicily is packed with ancient treasures to discover. From monumental temples to mosaics of unequalled precision, each of these sites is ...

Jumbled deposits of rock found on the top of hills in south-east Sicily were left by the megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean sea 5 million years – the largest known flooding event in Earth ...