White Almond Sicily

"I do not envy the Heaven to God because I am well satisfied to live in Sicily" King Federico II of Sicily, 1194 - 1250 AD Last year I received a multitude of emails and messages from people asking my advice about buying a house in Sicily and about life on the island.  I think that with a lot of us spending more time at home in lockdown that many people were using their time to follow a dream of looking for a place in the sun with Sicily in mind due to the amount of coverage in the media about towns selling houses for €1 and also due to the island becoming a more popular destination for holidays.  We did NOT buy our house for €1, our story is a unique one.  This year it will be sixteen years since we first visited Sicily and we immediately fell in love with the island, its culture, its food and its people, so much so that after just three trips we decided that we wanted to buy a house there. This is our story ..... We first chose to visit Sicily after I read an article in...

" To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything " Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787 Whether you are a lover of art, history, mythology, food, vineyards, movies and literary, walking and hiking or just a sun worshipper of beautiful beaches, or lazy days onboard a boat Sicily might just be the perfect destination for you. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and it is Italy's largest region, it is also Italy's most varied region. In terms of geology there are offshore islands, an endless coastline, rugged mountains and active volcanos, but its food, architecture and history are also of note. It is also the region which has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. Sicily formed a significant portion of the Ancient Greek empire, it was strategically vital to Ancient Rome and was invaded in succession by the Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, French, Spanish and Bourbons before unify...