Every day, tiny earthquakes rock Mt Etna, which at 3, 300 meters high, dominates the island of Sicily in southern Italy.

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Otherwise, there is always one of the great dessert wines, one from a little island near Sicily which is called Passito di Pantelleria, the best one of all is Ben Rye.

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The island of Sicily has some sensational coastlines of its own, but slip across to the seven Aeolian islands a short boat ride away and you are into otherworldly territory, part of a jagged volcanic ridge.

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Spain's Mallorca and surrounding islands bring in 11 times more international visitors than Sicily, even though the Italian island has a longer coastline, Mr. Gnudi said.

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Armani and Galeotti bought a holiday home on the island of Pantelleria, off Sicily, and the country villa south of Milan.

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Events proved Goering wrong, and in fact only a single territory was ever brought to surrender by air power alone the Italian island of Pantelleria, halfway between Sicily and Libya, in 1943.

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Sicily is much larger and they recommend not to cover the whole island in a week, but instead concentrate on one area.

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Though the local cuisine incorporates ingredients and techniques from Sicily and Tunisia, Pantelleria's nearest neighbors, it is as strikingly distinctive as the island's craggy lava-rock landscape.

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