Mount Etna
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and is in an almost constant state of eruption. The fertile volcanic soils support extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad Plain of Catania to the south. Due to its history of recent activity and nearby population, Mount Etna has been designated a Decade Volcano by the United Nations
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Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele
The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II. It is the biggest in Italy and one of the largest of Europe (the third after the Opéra National de Paris and Staatsoper a Vienna), renowned for its perfect acoustics.
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Villa Romana del Casale
Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana dû Casali) is a Roman villa located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. It contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world.The Villa Romana del Casale was constructed between the end of the century. III e l'inizio del sec. III and the beginning of the century. IV dC, nell'ambito di un sistema di latifondi appartenenti a potenti famiglie romane, che vi si recavano a caccia o in vacanza. IV AD, under a system of large estate belonging to the powerful Roman families, who went out hunting or on vacation. Alcuni studiosi suppongono che la villa fosse appartenuta ad una personalità altolocata della gerarchia dell'Impero Romano (un Console), mentre altri sostengono che la villa sia appartenuta all'Imperatore M. Some scholars assume that the house had belonged to a highly placed persons in the hierarchy of the Roman Empire (a console), while others argue that the house has belonged to the Emperor M. Valerio Massimiano, detto Herculeos Victor. Valerio Massimiano, Herculeos said Victor.
Abitata anche in eta' araba, la villa fu parzialmente distrutta dai normanni, in seguito, una valanga di fango, provenienti dal monte Mangone, che la sovrasta, la coprì quasi totalmente. Inhabited in eta 'Arab, the house was partially destroyed by the Normans, then an avalanche of mud coming from the mountain Mangone, that overlooks the covered almost completely.
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Valley of the Temples
The archaeological area known as the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Sicily, is one of the most important archeological sites in the world and a Unesco world heritage site since 1998. Along a long rocky scarp, chosen as the southern limit of the town, are still sited the great temples of ancient Akragas:the Temple of Hera (Juno) Lacinia, Concordia, Heracles (Hercules), Olympian Zeus (Jupiter), Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri) and Hephaistos (Vulcan). Further down, on the bank of the Akragas river, near a medical spring, stood the Temple dedicated to Asklepius (Eusculapius), the god of medicine. At the mouth of the river there was the harbour and emporion (trading-post) of the ancient city.
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