Archive for the ‘Sicily’ Category
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
It was once almost synonymous with the Mob. Now Sicily, the Mediterranean's largest island, is turning itself into one of the key property in Italy hotspots. One key factor behind the soaring popularity of property in Sicily is the island's prices, which are in general not just infinitely ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Buying a dream home in Italy has rarely been easier or more desirable, especially with the pound strengthening against the Euro, Italian taxation changes that have made the buying process cheaper and falling property prices. Throw in the chance to swap yet another lousy British summer with the almost year-round ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Rome may not have been built in a day...but this is a project that has been some 2,000 years in the offing. Italy is finally pressing ahead with plans for a bridge linking Sicily to Calabria and the mainland, two millennia after the Romans first considered the idea.
At some ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Catania, like so many of the enchanting towns and cities on the west coast of Sicily in Italy, is gloriously overlooked by the 3350m Mount Etna, while it in turn looks out onto the Ionian Sea. Sicily's second city, it is an irresistible mixture of various cultures down the ...
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