The Faraglioni It is thought that their origin is associated with the wrath of the cyclops Polyphemus who, blinded by Ulysses, would have thrown the rocks into the sea against the Greek hero to prevent him from fleeing. A storey that has certainly fuelled legend about the Cyclops Islands, also told in the ninth book of the Odyssey. Fantasy aside, these are wonderful works of nature, sculpted for thousands of years by wind and rain, which fall within a protected marine area, composed of Lachea Island, stacks and four other rocks arranged in an arch. Their origin – in addition to the legend of Polyphemus – can be traced back to the first of the four phases of the evolution of the volcano Etna, an intense volcanic activity that began about half a million years ago. 

Norman Castle Aci Castello The castle of Aci is located in Aci Castello in the province of Catania. The fortification of uncertain origin, was the fulcrum of the development of the territory of the Aci in the Middle Ages. During the Sicilian Vespers, it was subjected to the lordship of Roger of Lauria, then in the Aragonese era it was of John of Sicily and finally of the Alagona being besieged several times. It is currently home to a civic museum. The basaltic promontory where the castle stands, consists of underwater lava flows (pillow) that have a radiometric age of about 500,000 years from the present. The basaltic cliff is surrounded by a lava flow of prehistoric times that in the historiography of the nineteenth century had been wrongly attributed to the eruption of 1169 Historically a first castle was built in the seventh century (according to others in the sixth century) by the Byzantines on a pre-existing fortification of the Roman period.

Ulysses' Caves in Ognina with swimming guide

The scene filmed here is one of the cruelest, the murder of Don Ciccio Capo di Corleone, at the hands of Antonio Andolini's son, played by a very young Robert De Niro (father of Marlon Brando) Many years later, in 1923, Vito Corleone killed Don Ciccio, now elderly, outside his villa, quartering him with a stiletto and thus avenging his parents and his brother. His role as Don di Corleone is taken by Tommasino, Vito's friend with whom he participated in the murder of the old mafioso.

The villa of Don Altobello (Wallach), the head of the Tattaglia clan who will try to exploit the friendship which linked him to Michael Corleone's father (Pacino) to let the mafia enter the International Real Estate, the important company controlled by the Vatican and of which Michael is part of the board of directors.

The Roman palace in which the powerful politician Licio Lucchesi (Robutti) lives, who will be murdered by a killer sent by Michael Corleone (Pacino).

The church is located in the high street of Acireale and was built in the second half of the nineteenth century on the site of an older church, built in the sixteenth century. Externally, the church has a typical concave façade; the interior is in neo-Gothic style and contains a chapel dedicated to Santa Rita of Cascia, the centre of the Acirean deviation for the saint. The adjacent convent of the Dominican fathers, with three floors, was also built in the second half of the nineteenth century. It belongs to the FAI Italian environment fund

Proclaimed by UNESCO as a monument and messenger of a culture of Peace white stone of Syracuse, where the chisel of skilled artists they give the city one of the best examples of Sicilian baroque. In the rooms attached to the sacristy there is Museum which houses particularly valuable liturgical furnishings and vestments.

mix of styles: from the southern tower of 1544, in lava ashlars and white stone, we move on to baroque right in front of the Royal Chapel of Santa Venera where the reliquary bust of the patron saint is keptof the City and the Diocese. On the floor is the sundial created in 1843 by the astronomer Christian Peters de Flensburg Visit to the bell tower about two years ago the discovery of crypt.