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Links These links are suggested to provide you with more information about places to visit during your stay. These are provided for information only; we cannot guarantee that they are accurate or current in every respect. Taormina Online. Good locality site with no commercial clutter or local political promotion. Sponsored by the Taormina Friends Club. See Palermo. Destination guide for Palermo and northwestern Sicily. Best of Sicily Travel Guide. Complete travel guide with monthly online magazine. Classical Drama in Syracuse's Amphitheatre. Bilingual Italian-English site of the National Institute of Ancient Drama of Syracuse, which performs classical Greek and Roman dramas in the ancient amphitheatre of that eastern Sicilian city. Presents a seasonal calendar of performances and ticket purchasing information. The plays are usually performed in Italian rather than their original languages. Taormina Film Festival. Good guide to this annual international cinematic celebration. Sometimes described in English. Experience Puglia. Travel services, tours and private guides in the fascinating Apulia region of southeastern peninsular Italy, the 'heel' of the Italian boot. Balletto di Sicilia (Sicilian Ballet). Bilingual Italian-English site of Sicily's most important ballet company, now known as the Compagnia Zappalà of Catania. Teatro Massimo. Informative bilingual Italian-English site of Sicily's most important opera house and concert hall, with a list of currently scheduled concerts, opera and ballet. The site includes an excellent history of the theatre's past seasons and its role as a symbol of Palermitan culture for a century. Concert-goers and opera-lovers can check out what's scheduled before they arrive in Palermo. Sicilian Genealogical Research resources and strategies. Picciolo Golf Club. An 18-hole golf course within easy driving distance of Catania. Fairly challenging course in nice location with Etna in the background. Madonie Golf Club. An 18-hole golf course within easy driving distance of Palermo, not far from Cefalù. Fairly challenging course in scenic location with Madonie Mountains in the background. A Bequest Unearthed: Phoenicia. Best online source of information on the Phoenicians, who founded settlements in western Sicily around 750 BC. The site presents numerous specialised articles on all aspects of Phoenician history, society and culture --in Phoenicia and around the Mediterranean. Well-indexed and easily searched. Battle of Hastings 1066. The other Norman conquest --of England. Great site dealing with this English battle fought five years after the Normans' Battle of Messina. Good general information on the conquerors of both Sicily and England. (Some Norman knights actually fought in both places.) Allied War Cemeteries. There are a number of these in Sicily, but note that many fallen Americans are buried at the Sicily-Rome Cemetery maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission near Rome. There are several British Commonwealth cemeteries in eastern Sicily. See the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site for more information or to search for a particular soldier from Britain, Canada or elsewhere in the Commonwealth. Sicilian Campaign 1943. Official United States Army military history of the campaign in Sicily in Summer 1943. To top of page |
