A real trip back in time, this itinerary is full of well-known historic towns, places inhabited since prehistoric times, mindful of past and auspicious crucial battles that marked the fate of empires and hegemonies.

Routes indelibly marked by art, by architectonic styles and religions that followed with different rules. A trip to an island between art, culture and wonderful sceneries surrounded by the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.

In the imposing Etna’s back-ground, in the old Naxos Bay born one of the most spectacular city of Messina’s district: Taormina, international tourist destination. It is represented by artists like a “Eden” on earth for the right combination of different architectonical elements and for the continuous alternating of shapes and styles that give it a suggestive charm that enchants visitors coming from each part of the world.

Acireale is the largest of the centers located on the eastern side of Etna. The original nucleus is represented by Piazza del Duomo, in Baroque style; eighteenth-century church of SS.Pietro and Paul; the Town Hole; the Church of San Sebastian; the Zalantea Library and gallery, dating back to 1671, one of the richest in Sicily.

Lying on the slopes of Etna, leaning towards the waters of the Ionian Sea and surrounded by lush orange groves, Catania offers visitors the sign of a fascinating and mysterious nature, that takes colour of volcanic fire, the blue of the legendary Riviera of the Cyclops, and the dark green of the largest plains of Sicily.

Thanks to its geographical position and its bay with a large natural harbour, since its foundation has played a predominant role for the defence of the continuing invasions from the east coast. During the centuries it has become important for its harbour as a centre of trade. There are considerable tourism and natural potentialities, unfortunately mortified by industrialization.

Land of great contrasts, where you cross an illustrious past and a present of extreme modernity, presents various landscapes: green hills and mountains from the sharp beauty, calcareous rocks with a strange gold-white colour, white costs, rapids and lay flat. Sanctuaries, theatres, sculptures, spas and fortresses testify the splendour of the antiquity.

Located in the southern point of Italy, is particularly sought after by divers, who can enjoy some of the most beautiful waters of the Mediterranean Sea, full of grouper, sea bass, snapper, sea bream and other varieties. Even happens to spot the sea turtles that on these shores, came to lay their eggs; even the tuna pass in large flocks in the hallway with the island.

This Island boasts 7000 years of history, visible everywhere in the landscape and architecture with exciting views and ancient perspectives all wrapped in the tufa colour and the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea. The archipelago is a sort of open-air museum where you can find prehistoric riddles, the path of S. Paul, the fortifications of the Knights who defended Christianity in the world.

It is half an hour far away from Malta by boat but offers a more picturesque green and wild landscape. There are numerous prehistoric findings such as the temples of Ggantija and the Mnajdra one. Good for the sailors are: the Azure Window, a kind of rock door moulded by wind and sea with the shape of a window and the Fungus Rock, the rock with the shape of a mushroom. Suggestive even the legendary cave of Calypso.

Between Malta and Gozo arises Comino, a barren islet in limestone coralligenous 1700m long and wide 1400 and with the neighbouring uninhabited rock of Cominotto, scarcely reaches the 2.6 square kilometers. It is currently inhabited by a farming population of about twenty people, adding the summer guests of the unique hotel of the island, Comino Hotel and of the adjacent Sailing Club.