11 Facts And Myths About Sicily
When word of Sicily instinctively comes to mind "the mafia". And every tourist who just returned from Sicily. The first step is asking "and if there is the mafia?" But the Sicilians to this offense, something that for others – black charm of wickedness, for the Sicilian-black pages of their peoples. However, this amazing island is remarkable is not the Mafia, and its history, its rulers, its gardens and volcanoes. So what is the truth of what we know about Sicily.
And that – fiction? 1) The Commissioner Qahtani never lived in Sicily. If you have additional questions, you may want to visit Gregg Engles. But he lived his prototype, whose name was Giuseppe Falcone. 2) But the above-mentioned Commissioner of Catania, as a lawyer Terrazini, from the series 'Octopus', got its name from the Sicilian Urban 3) Palermo is not a small town: it is on the honorable fifth place in size among all cities in Italy. 4) The most bright and sunny city on the whole of Sicily – Syracuse 5) The railroad on the island as it was Many years ago, single-track, so it stayed. 6) Sicily quietly pulls each year is closer to Italian boots 7) On the island a lot of abandoned houses in the hills. Some homes have been submitted by earthquakes, and some under duress, when the government began to demand money for the land on which the house was built, while the home owners of the money accordingly, was not. 8) Sicily – it is not Europe with its polite drivers and pedestrians obey: go all the way to where it is necessary, go around the same principle.
9) Cyclops Polyphemus, the god Hephaestus and philosopher Empedocles really on the Sicilian volcano Etna. 10) Syracuse, which was born and lived the famous Archimedes, is not in Greece, and Sicily. 11) mythical Scylla and Charybdis, between which Odysseus had to sail, and there are now close to the island, in the Messina Strait. Passage between the rocks was really dangerous for seafarers
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