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With a total surface area of 25,460 sq. Km, Sicily is the largest
island in the Mediterranean basin. Around it lie a number of smaller
islands: to the north the Aeolian islands and Ustica, to the West the
Egadi, and to the south the Pelagie islands and Pantelleria
(making a total surface area of 25,708 sq. Km). Sicily boasts round 1,000 Km of coastline, most-ly rocky in the north and sandy
in the south. The enchanting land where Archimedes taught and
Saint Paul preached was a Greek colony, a Roman province, an Arab emirate
and a Norman kingdom. The Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Swabians, Angevins and Aragonese made Sicily their own, leaving behind an eclectic history that you can still touch today.
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