Best beaches in Sicily guide from top spots for families to the quieter beaches if you want to escape the crowds. Travel. Julie Delahaye Digital Travel Editor . 11:53, 15 Jul 2019.

Sicily is blessed with endless, glorious beaches both sandy and rocky, and with the clearest of water in unimaginable shades of blue. Maintenance, however, isn't always as perfect as the venue ...

However, continue east past this jerry-built resort and you get to one of Sicily’s best beaches, a two-mile-long stretch of golden sand that since 1984 has been part of the Foce del Belice ...

The beach is part of a nature reserve, the only place in Italy where loggerhead sea turtles lay their eggs. Siremar runs ferries to Lampedusa from Sicily’s Porto Empedocle (9 hours; from £30 ...

UNDER SIEGE The Castello Maniace, a 13th-century citadel in Syracuse’s old town, is just one vestige of Sicily’s long history of occupation and conquest. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo ...