Sicily is at the crossroad of civilization with a real historical and cultural melting pot. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.”, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East.

Sicily is a region rich in history. It flourished under the Greek and Roman Empire. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted the Byzantines, the Muslims and several European kingdoms that all brought their influences in the culture, the arts and the architecture of the region and made Sicily the center of economic and trade routes.

Thereafter the modern history of Sicily, part of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies, has been under the influence of the Austrian Dynasty of the D’Asburgo and the Italian Dynasty of the Borboni. In 1860, after the Garibaldi’s Expedition of the Thousand, the territory of Sicily entered the Italian Kingdom. In 1946, it has been constituted the Sicilian region as it known today.