Sicily

[Elizabeth T]

Hello Slow Europe Travelers. I am new to the forum. My sister and I plan to travel to Sicily in a few months and would greatly appreciate any must see places.
We plan on beginning our journey near Catania.
thank you

 

[Eleanor]

You will love Sciliy. I visited in 2017 flying in and out of Catania. We were based in two centres - Agrigento for the Valley of the Temples, Palermo and Monreale. We then moved to Taormina (visiting Villa Romana del Casale on the way). Taormina has the Greek Theatre as well as some wonderful old churches and gardens. We also did a day at Ortygia which I loved. Unfortunately we didn't have time to see Syracuse. We did visit Mount Etna but that was the one day in the holiday when it wass raining with low cloud...

My trip report is here and I have also wrtitten more detailed travel articles for Taormina and Ortygia which you may find useful.

There is also this thread from January and this one from February which you might also find helpful.