SICILY,,Palermo, the Cathedral.
The island of Sicily is in the center of the Mediterranean sea and has always been at the crossroads between Europe,Asia, and Africa.The necessity to control this seaway explains why the history of Sicily, more than any other part of Italy, has been a sequence of domination by various ppopulations who came from over the seas.The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Normans, the French,Spanish.They all left different layers of culture,architecture,traditions,making Sicily one of the most fascinating places...