Every city in Sicily

From the capital to the smallest borghi.

PalermoThe capitalSicily's exuberant capital wears its Arab-Norman past in the golden mosaics of the Palatine Chapel and the layered cathedral that holds Frederick II's tomb. Its street markets sell panelle and other fried snacks beneath crumbling Baroque palazzi.
Acate
Aci Bonaccorsi
Aci Castello
Aci Catena
Aci Sant'Antonio
AcirealeA Baroque town on the eastern coast below Mount Etna, built of dark lava stone and pale limestone. It hosts one of Sicily's most celebrated Carnivals, with elaborate flower and papier-mache floats, and a long tradition of almond-paste confectionery.
Acquaviva Platani
Acquedolci
Adrano
Agira
AgrigentoA hill city above the southern coast, overlooking the Valley of the Temples. This UNESCO site spreads a ridge of Doric temples below the town, the golden Temple of Concordia among the best preserved in the Greek world, glorious in almond-blossom season.
Aidone
Alcamo
Alcara li Fusi
Alessandria della Rocca
Alì
Alì Terme
Alia
Alimena
Aliminusa
Altavilla Milicia
Altofonte
Antillo
Aragona
Assoro
Augusta
Avola
Bagheria
Balestrate
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
Barrafranca
Basicò
Baucina
Belmonte Mezzagno
Belpasso
Biancavilla
Bisacquino
Bivona
Blufi
Bolognetta
Bompensiere
Bompietro
Borgetto
Brolo
Bronte
Buccheri
Burgio
Buscemi
Buseto Palizzolo
Butera
Caccamo
Calamonaci
Calascibetta
Calatabiano
Calatafimi-SegestaA western Sicilian town that guards the ruins of Segesta, where a perfect Doric temple stands alone on a hilltop, its columns never finished. A Greek theatre crowns the neighboring summit, looking out over the Elymian city's bare slopes.
Caltabellotta
CaltagironeA Baroque town in the hills of southeastern Sicily, celebrated for its centuries-old ceramic tradition. Its monumental staircase of Santa Maria del Monte rises in 142 steps, each riser faced with hand-painted maiolica tiles.
CaltanissettaA provincial capital in the hilly heart of central Sicily, long a center of the island's sulphur-mining country. Set among rolling inland wheat fields, it keeps a Baroque cathedral and a quiet, workaday character far from the coastal resorts.
Caltavuturo
Camastra
Cammarata
Campobello di Licata
Campobello di Mazara
Campofelice di Fitalia
Campofelice di Roccella
Campofiorito
Campofranco
Camporeale
Camporotondo Etneo
Canicattì
Canicattini Bagni
Capaci
Capizzi
Capo d'Orlando
Capri Leone
Carini
Carlentini
Caronia
Casalvecchio Siculo
Cassaro
Castel di Iudica
Castel di Lucio
Castelbuono
Casteldaccia
Castell'Umberto
Castellammare del GolfoA fishing port on a wide gulf of the northwestern coast, its old quarter gathered around a seafront castle on a rocky spur. The town is a base for the Zingaro nature reserve, whose path threads between limestone cliffs and pebble coves.
Castellana Sicula
Castelmola
Casteltermini
CastelvetranoA town on the southwestern coast, gateway to Selinunte, one of Europe's largest archaeological parks. Vast Greek temple ruins rise above the dunes, Temple E still standing by the sea. The surrounding groves yield the prized green Nocellara olive.
Castiglione di Sicilia
Castrofilippo
Castronovo di Sicilia
Castroreale
Catenanuova
Cattolica Eraclea
Cefalà Diana
CefalùA handsome seaside town on the Tyrrhenian coast, gathered beneath a great rocky headland called La Rocca. Its twin-towered Norman cathedral, raised on a vow by Roger II, holds the earliest of Sicily's Christ Pantocrator mosaics above a fine sandy beach.
Centuripe
Cerami
Cerda
Cesarò
Chiaramonte Gulfi
Chiusa Sclafani
Cianciana
Ciminna
Cinisi
Collesano
Comiso
Comitini
Condrò
Contessa Entellina
Corleone
Custonaci
Delia
EnnaSet on a high plateau at almost a thousand meters in the very center of the island, Enna is nicknamed the navel of Sicily. The Castello di Lombardia, the island's largest castle, crowns the summit, its surviving towers commanding immense views.
EriceA medieval town on a mountain summit above Trapani, often wrapped in cloud, with a Norman castle on the site of an ancient temple of Venus. Its cobbled triangular plan is famous for almond pastries, made to old convent recipes.
Falcone
Favara
FavignanaThe largest of the Egadi Islands off Trapani, shaped like a butterfly with wings of pale limestone. Long the heart of an ancient tonnara, its tuna-fishing tradition is remembered in a grand old cannery, while flooded quarries make turquoise swimming coves.
Ferla
Ficarazzi
Ficarra
Fiumedinisi
Fiumefreddo di Sicilia
Floresta
Floridia
Fondachelli-Fantina
Forza d'Agrò
Francavilla di Sicilia
Francofonte
Frazzanò
Furci Siculo
Furnari
Gaggi
Gagliano Castelferrato
Galati Mamertino
Gallodoro
Gangi
Gela
Geraci Siculo
Giardinello
Giardini NaxosA seaside resort in a wide bay below Taormina, on the site of Naxos, the first Greek colony founded in Sicily. Today its long beach and seafront draw summer visitors, while an archaeological park preserves the ancient settlement's walls.
Giarratana
Giarre
Gibellina
Gioiosa Marea
Giuliana
Godrano
Grammichele
Graniti
Gratteri
Gravina di Catania
Grotte
Gualtieri Sicaminò
Isnello
Isola delle Femmine
Ispica
Itala
Joppolo Giancaxio
Lampedusa e Linosa
Lascari
Leni
Lentini
Leonforte
Lercara Friddi
Letojanni
Librizzi
Licata
Licodia Eubea
Limina
Linguaglossa
LipariThe largest and liveliest of the Aeolian Islands, a UNESCO-listed volcanic archipelago north of Sicily. Its old town climbs to a citadel acropolis above the harbor, with an excellent archaeological museum and coasts streaked with obsidian and white pumice.
Longi
Lucca Sicula
Maletto
Malfa
Malvagna
Mandanici
Maniace
Marianopoli
Marineo
MarsalaA port city on Sicily's western tip, giving its name to the fortified wine made in its cellars since the eighteenth century. Garibaldi landed here in 1860, and just offshore the Stagnone salt pans glow pink at sunset around the island of Mozia.
Mascali
Mascalucia
Mazara del Vallo
Mazzarino
Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea
Mazzarrone
Melilli
Menfi
Merì
MessinaSicily's gateway across the narrow strait from the mainland, a busy port rebuilt after the catastrophic 1908 earthquake. Its cathedral square is famous for a great astronomical clock whose gilded figures stir into motion every day at noon.
Mezzojuso
Milazzo
Milena
Militello in Val di Catania
Militello Rosmarino
Milo
Mineo
Mirabella Imbaccari
Mirto
Misiliscemi
Misilmeri
Misterbianco
Mistretta
ModicaA Baroque town stacked on two levels along a steep gorge in the southeast, its houses rising in tiers above the old riverbed. The flight of steps to San Giorgio crowns the upper town, and Modica is renowned for its grainy chocolate, made by an old Aztec method.
Moio Alcantara
Monforte San Giorgio
Mongiuffi Melia
MonrealeA town on the hills above Palermo, built around one of the supreme achievements of Norman Sicily. Its cathedral is sheathed in some 6,400 square meters of gold mosaic, dominated by a vast Christ Pantocrator, with a serene Benedictine cloister alongside.
Montagnareale
Montalbano Elicona
Montallegro
Montedoro
Montelepre
Montemaggiore Belsito
Monterosso Almo
Montevago
Motta Camastra
Motta d'Affermo
Motta Sant'Anastasia
Mussomeli
Naro
Naso
Nicolosi
Nicosia
Niscemi
Nissoria
Nizza di Sicilia
NotoThe capital of Sicilian Baroque, rebuilt entirely after the 1693 earthquake in warm honey-colored stone. Its grand cathedral and palazzi glow at golden hour, and each May the Infiorata festival carpets a whole street in flower petals.
Novara di Sicilia
Oliveri
Pace del Mela
Paceco
Pachino
Pagliara
Palagonia
Palazzo Adriano
Palazzolo Acreide
Palma di Montechiaro
Pantelleria
Partanna
Partinico
Paternò
Patti
Pedara
Petralia Soprana
Petralia Sottana
Petrosino
Pettineo
Piana degli Albanesi
Piazza ArmerinaA hill town in the wooded center of Sicily, near the Villa Romana del Casale. This UNESCO-listed Roman villa preserves some 3,500 square meters of mosaic floors, including the famous athletes in bikinis and the corridor of the Great Hunt.
Piedimonte Etneo
Pietraperzia
Piraino
Poggioreale
Polizzi Generosa
Pollina
Porto Empedocle
Portopalo di Capo Passero
Pozzallo
Priolo Gargallo
Prizzi
Racalmuto
Raccuja
Raddusa
Raffadali
Ragalna
RagusaA Baroque city in the southeast, split between an upper town and Ragusa Ibla, the older quarter rebuilt within its tangled medieval plan. Its blue-domed church of San Giorgio crowns a flight of steps, and the lanes serve as a film set for Montalbano.
Ramacca
Randazzo
Ravanusa
Realmonte
Regalbuto
Reitano
Resuttano
Ribera
Riesi
Riposto
Roccafiorita
Roccalumera
Roccamena
Roccapalumba
Roccavaldina
Roccella Valdemone
Rodì Milici
Rometta
Rosolini
Salaparuta
Salemi
SalinaThe greenest of the Aeolian Islands, its twin volcanic peaks rising from vineyards and caper bushes. Famous for sweet Malvasia wine and prized capers, it provided the sun-struck backdrop for the film Il Postino.
Sambuca di Sicilia
San Biagio Platani
San Cataldo
San Cipirello
San Cono
San Filippo del Mela
San Fratello
San Giovanni Gemini
San Giovanni la Punta
San Giuseppe Jato
San Gregorio di Catania
San Marco d'Alunzio
San Mauro Castelverde
San Michele di Ganzaria
San Pier Niceto
San Piero Patti
San Pietro Clarenza
San Salvatore di Fitalia
San Teodoro
San Vito Lo CapoA resort village at the end of a cape on Sicily's northwest coast, framed by the sheer Monte Monaco. Its crescent of fine white sand and pale shallows is among the island's most loved beaches, and each September it hosts a famous couscous festival.
Sant'Agata di Militello
Sant'Agata li Battiati
Sant'Alessio Siculo
Sant'Alfio
Sant'Angelo di Brolo
Sant'Angelo Muxaro
Santa Caterina Villarmosa
Santa Cristina Gela
Santa Croce Camerina
Santa Domenica Vittoria
Santa Elisabetta
Santa Flavia
Santa Lucia del Mela
Santa Margherita di Belice
Santa Maria di Licodia
Santa Marina Salina
Santa Ninfa
Santa Teresa di Riva
Santa Venerina
Santo Stefano di Camastra
Santo Stefano Quisquina
Saponara
SavocaA tiny hill village in the hinterland above the Ionian coast, near Taormina. Francis Ford Coppola filmed the Sicilian scenes of The Godfather here, and visitors still stop at the Bar Vitelli, the village cafe that featured in the film.
Scaletta Zanclea
Sciacca
Sciara
ScicliA Baroque town in the Val di Noto, set where three valleys meet in the deep southeast of Sicily. Its handsome streets and palazzi, rebuilt in the local pale stone after the 1693 earthquake, are familiar from the Inspector Montalbano television series.
Scillato
Sclafani Bagni
Scordia
Serradifalco
Siculiana
Sinagra
Solarino
Sommatino
Sortino
Spadafora
Sperlinga
Sutera
SyracuseOnce among the greatest cities of the Greek world and the home of Archimedes, Syracuse spreads from the island of Ortigia to the Neapolis quarter. There a vast rock-cut Greek theatre, where Aeschylus premiered his plays, still stages classical drama each spring.
TaorminaSicily's most glamorous resort, a cliff-top town between the sea and Mount Etna. Its ancient Greek theatre frames the smoking volcano in its open arch and stages a summer festival, while below, the islet of Isola Bella sits in a cove on its pebble tombolo.
Terme Vigliatore
Termini Imerese
Terrasini
Torregrotta
Torrenova
Torretta
Tortorici
Trabia
TrapaniA port city on a curving spit at Sicily's western tip, the ferry gateway to the Egadi Islands. Salt has been worked here for centuries, and the salt pans south of the city, dotted with old windmills, turn rose and copper at sunset.
Trappeto
Trecastagni
Tremestieri Etneo
Tripi-Abakainon
Troina
Tusa
Ucria
Ustica
Valderice
Valdina
Valguarnera Caropepe
Valledolmo
Vallelunga Pratameno
Valverde
Venetico
Ventimiglia di Sicilia
Viagrande
Vicari
Villabate
Villafranca Sicula
Villafranca Tirrena
Villafrati
Villalba
Villarosa
Vita
Vittoria
Vizzini
VulcanoThe nearest of the Aeolian Islands to Sicily, a brooding volcanic isle that gave the world the very word volcano. Visitors climb the Gran Cratere for its sulphur-rimmed rim, and the island is known for its warm, mineral-rich mud baths.
Zafferana Etnea
CataniaSicily's second city and the gateway to Mount Etna, rebuilt in dark lava-stone Baroque after eruptions and earthquakes. Its raucous fish market trades each morning in the shadow of a cathedral that guards the relics of Saint Agatha and the tomb of Bellini.