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Itineraries
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Fly into Palermo, Trapani or Catania and pick up a hire car to begin your circumnavigation
of the island. Your destinations should be the same regardless of where you start: Agri-
gento, Selinunte, Segesta, the Val di Noto, Syracuse, Catania, Mt Etna, Taormina, the
Aeolian Islands and Palermo. From
Palermo
, for instance, after exploring the capital's
magnificent architectural monuments, you could head southwest to the temples at
Segesta
,
Selinunte
and
Agrigento
, then cut east across the island to the Unesco-listed Val di Noto,
where the baroque beauties of
Ragusa
,
Modica
and
Noto
are all obligatory stops. Next it's
on to
Syracuse
, a highlight of any trip to Sicily: split your time here between the
pedestrian-friendly ancient island city of Ortygia and the vast classical ruins of the Parco
Archeologico. Continue up the coast to bustling
Catania
and circle
Mt Etna
to reach
