The Companion Guide to Sicily: New Edition (Companion Guides) - Softcover

Trevelyan, Raleigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900639165 ISBN 13: 9781900639163

Verlag: Companion Guides, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The beautiful island of Sicily, poised between Europe and Africa, has seen many invaders, nearly all of whom have left their mark in art and architecture. It is also a land of myth and enigma, pagan below the Catholic surface, troubled by the shadow of the Mafia - in the words of the great Sicilianwriter Leonardo Sciascia, a fantasy world. Raleigh Trevelyan knows the island intimately, and his knowledge adds immeasurably to the experience of visiting the great sites: Segesta, Agrigento and the mosaics of the Roman villa near Piazza Armerina, Palermo and Monreale, the theatre at Syracuse and the baroque marvels of Noto. Unforgettable though these are, Sicily's unique character is more fully revealed as the author makes his leisurely way from province to province, describing the landscape and monuments, great treasures and remote villages, and spicing these discoveries with personal anecdote and references from writers down the centuries.RALEIGH TREVELYAN's books include several on Italian themes, notably Princesunder the Volcano and two outstanding books about the Second World War in Italy: The Fortress: A Diary of Anzio and After and Rome 1944: The Battle for the Eternal City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Companion Guides
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1900639165
• ISBN 13: 9781900639163
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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