Cefalu

Crusin' the northern coastline of Sicily

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April 15th 2013
Today’s Gelato flavour – not today saving ourselves for more Sicilian sweet treats tonight, cakes that is ! We weren’t in any hurry this morning to leave Monreale as we had less than 200km to our next stop in Gioiosa Marea where we have two nights before leaving Sicily for the mainland on Wednesday. Needless to say it was another beautiful sunrise and we lay in bed with the sun streaming i ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more