We took a 12 day tour of Sicily with Go Ahead Tours this July. We had always travelled independently and weren't sure we would like a group tour but the final results were good. We considered a ...

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum as far as posting goes, but read it all the time. My family and I are heading to Italy at the end of May and will be in Sicily for four days. While in Sicily we ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

It felt like entering a Bond villain's lair. We followed Viviana Pitino of the Buonivini estate through a door deep in the hillside into a cavernous hi-tech space. Inside was a sleek, modern winery ...

My boyfriend, Chris, is sitting in the exact spot where Al Pacino informed Appollonia's father that his name was Michael Corleone, and that "some people would pay a of lot money for that information, ...

Italians may flock to Sicily’s soft sands in summer, but this far-flung Mediterranean island is far more than just a beach destination. Families can scale Mount Etna in giant off-road jeep buses, ...

A Pax Mafiosa has settled over Sicily. Sicilians are defying the Mafia in a movement fueled by the generation that came of age in the 1980s, when waves of bloody public assassinations of prosecutors, ...

Rick Steves makes no secret of his love for Sicily. He believes the island has some of Italy's best food and adores the colorful towns bursting with life. It feels like Sicily has everything it takes ...

The open-top jeep is hurtling down country roads, plowing through mud and navigating hairpin turns. It is sunset on a summer evening in central Sicily, and of course there is not a cloud to be found.

Travelling around Sicily, you get used to seeing images of "Don" Vito Corleone – OK, Marlon Brando – in a tux. Sometimes – such as in the gritty, market-laced Vucciria district of capital Palermo – he ...

The Italian island of Sicily is famous for pristine beaches and hot summers, vineyards that blanket the slopes of the very active Mount Etna, and historical towns where a 16th-century Baroque ...

The magic starts as I touch down at Palermo’s Falcone Borsellino Airport at the tail end of summer, hoping for a reprieve from the heat, much like the locals who are weary of their long, scorching ...