Blue Guide Sicily [9781916568020]

Overview

The guide has the Blue Guides' traditional focus on architecture, art, history and archaeology, with in-depth coverage of the whole island, including the great cities of Palermo and Catania, the beautiful Baroque towns of Noto, Ragusa and Modica, Marsala with its famous wines, Taormina with its famous theatre, beautiful Syracuse, once home to Archimedes, and of course the majestic (and still active Mount Etna). The author is also an expert on Sicily's wildlife and its cuisine and the guide has details of the many local delicacies on offer.

Blue Guides have been trusted by readers since 1918. Some key features of Blue Guide Sicily:

• In full color, with award-winning maps and detailed plans and diagrams
• Illustrations that inform as well as decorate. Each photo is chosen to explain a key point of history, architecture or to give examples of the work of a major artist or sculptor
• Find out not just what you are looking at, but why: the Blue Guide contains a wealth of background detail, explaining how things are interconnected
• Become an expert in ancient Greek temple architecture with the Blue Guide’s accessible, in-depth coverage of Agrigento, Segesta and Selinunte
• Get to grips with the differences between the three world-famous mosaics in the cathedrals of Palermo, Monreale and Cefalù
• Understand the island’s history and its multiplicity of cultures, including Greek and Roman, Carthaginian and Byzantine, Arab and Norman, Aragonese and Bourbon
• Know your cassata from your caponata and enjoy the rich panoply of Sicilian food and wine
• Detailed glossaries of specialist terms, and key artists who left their mark
• Beautifully printed and laid out, a book that is a pleasure to own, and perfect either for use on the street or for armchair research at home

See more, understand more, and enjoy more of Sicily with the Blue Guide.