As of last year, I can also proudly say I've been to all of Italy's 20 regions. Funny enough, the last region I checked off my list is among the most popular ones: Sicily. I finally visited the ...

Catania Airport is Sicily's busiest airport and Italy's 6th busiest airport, with nearly 9 million passengers each year. "The runway at Catania Airport is unusable due to the volcanic ash fall.

Connected to the “boot” of Italy by a bridge, the island is accessible by car, train, boat, or plane. To get from Rome to Sicily, it takes about an hour.

I've lived in Italy and explored a lot of it, but I only recently visited Sicily for the first time. I wish I'd made time to golf in one of the region's famous courses or take a local cooking class.

Under its See Sicily program, Visit Sicily offers a free night’s stay, a complimentary excursion and a discount on an airfare or ferry ticket. After the tourism office unveiled the travel ...

CATANIA, Italy, July 26 (Reuters) - A fire early last week at Sicily's main airport is still causing massive disruption for visitors to the island, laying bare the disorganisation and poor ...

Four elderly people died as a result of wildfires in the southern island of Sicily and coastal city of Reggio Calabria. Italy’s fire brigade said they responded to 400 emergency calls for fallen ...

Sicily is alive with colour. (Credit: ©Laura Geissendoerfer) Sicily, often identified as the island at the tip of Italy’s boot, evokes rich feelings of passion, intrigue and pride, says Riotta.

The Arabs, who ruled for almost 300 years in the Middle Ages, also left their mark on Sicily's table by introducing rice and sugarcane and encouraging citrus production.

Planes were flown from the mainland to try and extinguish the fires that were burning dry brush on the slopes of the volcano. Stromboli is an active volcano, and the last time was erupted was in ...

Sicily may be just the first European region to grapple with an expanding tropical climate, showing the rest of the continent what it means to adapt to a changing planet. A changing landscape In ...

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2011 shows the view at the height of 1,900 meters of Mount Etna, on the east coast of southern Italy's Sicily Island. Mount Etna is the tallest active volc ...