ETNA EXCURSION
Etna (Mungibeddu or 'a Muntagna in Sicilian) is a Sicilian volcanic complex originated in the Quaternary and is the highest active volcano terrestrepiù the Eurasian plate. His frequent eruptions throughout history have changed, sometimes profoundly, the surrounding landscape, coming several times to threaten the people who over the millennia have settled around it on 21 June 2013, the thirty-seventh session of the UNESCO Committee, which met in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, he entered Mount Etna in the list of assets constituting the World Heritage.
EXCURSION TO TAORMINA
It is one of the most important international tourist centers of the Sicilian region, known for its natural scenery, beautiful sea and its historical monuments. It is situated on a hill 206 meters high above sea level, suspended between rocks and the sea, on a terrace of Mount Tauro, in a setting of natural beauty, unique for the variety and contrasts, on the southern slopes of the Peloritani mountains of the Ionian coast with Etna on sfondo.Il climate is gently mite.In according to the thirty-year average of 1961-1990 reference, the average temperature of the coldest month, January, stood at 11.0 ° C; one of the hottest month, August is +26.6 ° C
EXCURSION VALLE DELL'ALCANTARA
The Alcantara Gorges, also known as "Gole of Larderia", are located in the Alcantara Valley in Sicily where it ends the mountain range of Peloritani between the towns of Castiglione di Sicilia and Motta Camastra. They are of high gorges up to 25 meters wide and 2 meters in the narrowest and widest points 4-5 meters; the natural canyon, contrary to popular belief, was not excavated over thousands of years by water. The most likely is related to seismic events suggested that, with a vibrating-tectonic movements made literally split in two old basaltic lakes formed by the leakage of magma from cracks, older than 300,000 years of pre-Etna stands, allowing the water of River to creep inside.
EXCURSION IN AGRIGENTO
Founded around 580 BC, Agrigento boasts a territory where they settled the various peoples who left their mark on the island. Already home to indigenous peoples who maintained commercial relations with the Aegean and Mycenaean, the Agrigento region saw the rise of the polis Akragas (Ἀκράγας), founded by Geloan rhodium-origin cretese.Raggiunse its zenith in the fifth century BC, before the decline started from Carthaginian domination. During the Punic Wars was conquered by the Romans, who latinized his name to Agrigentum.Successivamente fell under Arab rule, with the name of Kerkent, and in 1089 AD it was conquered by Normanni.Fino 1853 his territory also included today town of Porto Empedocle.È known as temple city for its expanse of Doric temples of '
EXCURSION TO SQUARE ARMERINA
Piazza Armerina (Ciazza in the local Gallo-Italic language, Slick in Sicilian) is an Italian town of 22,196 abitantidel Free Municipal consortium of Enna in Sicily and is home to the bishopric with extensive diocese. Until 1927 it was the capital of an extensive district and home to the sub-prefecture, when it was not yet established the province of Enna, which was incorporated. It is an antique medieval city with a fine historic Baroque and historic Norman. On its territory there is the Roman Villa del Casale with his famous mosaics, since 1997 UNESCO World Heritage Site. Art cities, already defined Urbs opulent, with strong tourist attraction for its important archaeological, historical, artistic and natural, known as the "City of Mosaics and the Norman Palio".
EXCURSION TO NOTO
Noto is 31 km from Syracuse and is located in the southwest part of the province at the foot of the mountains Iblei. Its coast, between Avola and Pachino, gives its name to the gulf. With its 550.86 km², the municipality of Noto employs over one quarter of the province of Syracuse and is the largest town in Sicily and the fourth of Italy. The territory is, for the most part, hilly. The mountains to the north, belong to the chain of mountains Iblei. On the coast, low and sandy in all, apart from short stretches jagged, the plains are located. Probably the alluvial plain of San Paolo, inland, is the vast plain of the territory, as well as the most intensively cultivated. Noto is bordered to the south by Pachino, to the northeast with Avola and Syracuse, to the north by Palazzolo, north-west with Modica, west with Ispica. Is part of the municipality of Noto also an adjoining village enclave of Rosolini known as contrada Onion. The appearance agro Noto is characterized mainly by the Mediterranean vegetation and olive groves and almond groves in the hills, the large citrus groves and vineyards in the plain of San Paolo, while in the mountains, vast grasslands alternate with traces of Mediterranean vegetation with centuries-old laurels, oaks, ash and oak trees. The conformation of the territory has allowed the wider development of agriculture and livestock in the south to the north. by large citrus groves and vineyards in the San Paolo flat, while in the mountains, vast grasslands alternate with Mediterranean bush tracks, with centuries-old laurels, oaks, ash and oak trees. The conformation of the territory has allowed the wider development of agriculture and livestock in the south to the north. by large citrus groves and vineyards in the San Paolo flat, while in the mountains, vast grasslands alternate with Mediterranean bush tracks, with centuries-old laurels, oaks, ash and oak trees. The conformation of the territory has allowed the wider development of agriculture and livestock in the south to the north.
EXCURSION TO MODICA
Modica, whose name would originate from the Phoenician Mùtika (hotel, home: a clear analogy with the Phoenician Utica, a city where he gave death Cato of Utica) or from the Sicilian murika (bare rock, not cultivable), later called by the Greeks Μότουκα it is located 15 km south of the provincial capital and its urban territory is spread over a large plateau plowed by deep canyons (called locally "cave"). The town lies on the confluence of two rivers of torrential character that divide the plateau into four hills: Pizzo to the north, west Idria, Giganta to the east and south Monserrato. The two rivers, Pozzo dei Pruni and Janni Mauro (now dry and covered in the urban section), come together to form the Modicano, whose bed was covered in the early twentieth century, becoming today's Corso Umberto I, the main axis of the city. Modicano had the dignity of perennial river, until the first decades of the twentieth century, as supplied by permanent sources, including the lion that of the Great Fountain, which with its water permit that between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, along the banks of Μότουκανυς ποταμός, as he called the greek geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD, arise in Modica stretch of the river as many as 23 water mills! Then came the industrial mills, and water from the springs was channeled into the city's water network. From the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century, the presence along the banks of the streams of 17 bridges, which allowed the transit of people, animals and wagons from side to side, meant that in an early edition, that of 1934, the Encyclopedia Treccani, Modica was called the most unique city in Italy,
EXCURSION TO DUBROVNIK
Ragusa (RAUSA in Sicilian) is an Italian town of 73,313 inhabitants, leader of the Free Municipal consortium of Ragusa in Sicily; was the capital of the Province of Ragusa suppressed. It is the seventh municipality in the region by population and the third [5] to the surface. The town hall is located at 502 m above sea level is the southernmost capital of Italy. It is called the "city of bridges", for the presence of three very picturesque structures and historical value, but it was also defined by writers, artists and economists as the "island within an island" or "the other Sicily" , thanks to its history and to a socio-economic context very different from the rest of the island. In 1693 a devastating earthquake caused the almost total destruction of the entire city, killing more than five thousand victims. The reconstruction, which took place in the eighteenth century, divided into two large areas: a top Ragusa, situated on the plateau, on the other Ragusa Ibla, risen from the ruins of the city and rebuilt according to the ancient medieval structure. The architectural masterpieces built after the earthquake, along with all those in the Val di Noto, have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2002. Ragusa is one of the most important sites for the presence of evidence of Baroque art, like its churches and its eighteenth century buildings. The architectural masterpieces built after the earthquake, along with all those in the Val di Noto, have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2002. Ragusa is one of the most important sites for the presence of evidence of Baroque art, like its churches and its eighteenth century buildings. The architectural masterpieces built after the earthquake, along with all those in the Val di Noto, have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2002. Ragusa is one of the most important sites for the presence of evidence of Baroque art, like its churches and its eighteenth century buildings.
EXCURSION TO VENDICARI
The Nature Reserve Wildlife Oasis Vendicari is located in the province of Syracuse Noto and precisely between Marzamemi. Especially important for the presence of marshes that serve as a resting place in the migration of birds. Provided for by a law of the Sicilian Region in May 1981, was officially established in 1984, after the then Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Filippo Maria Pandolfi said 1450 hectares of land "wetland of international importance", according to the Convention of Ramsar 1971. It was actually usable provided only in 1989. It is managed by the Regional State Forests.
EXCURSION TO MARZAMEMI
Marzamemi is a seafaring village, part of which is the town of Pachino, which is about 3 km and a second part of the town of Noto which is 20 km away. It is located in the province of Siracusa.L'origine of Marzamemi name is controversial: some say derives from scion Arabic words meaning 'port' and memes means' little ', while according to the linguist Noto Corrado Avolio the name derives from the Arabic Marsà' to hamam, ie "bay of turtledoves", for the abundant passage of these birds in the spring. Simone Sultan, however, notes that some did erroneously result from graft and memes, 'louse', because the mothers were wont to say this word searching parasites among children hair. Antonino Terranova, finally, in the book "Pachum Pachynos Pachino stories and legends from Pachino to Capopassero" also he cites another thesis, according to which Memi would be reported to "Eufemio, the former commander of the Byzantine fleet who, rebelling against the Emperor Michael II Balbo, passed by the Arabs and with them began the conquest of the island; "Marza-memes" so mean Port of Eufemio, as well as Marsala means "port of Ali" or "Allah's Port."