With a sombre beauty at once

stark, austere, and dazzlingly

bright, Sicily has always been an

island apart. The climate is both

subtropical and Mediterranean,

the landscape serene yet arid, the

people gentle and volatile,

sometimes apt to erupt like Etna,

their great volcano.

From the hectic capital Palermo

to the temples of Agrigento, from

remote Trapani to genteel

Taormina, This Way Sicily

explores the history, culture and

natural wonders of the island

and its sister isles, Lipari, Salina

and Stromboli.