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Project Editor Giovanni Francesio this Guide 6
Editor Elena Marzorati
Secretary Emanuela Damiani
Designers Studio Matra–Silvia Tomasone, Lucia Tirabassi
Maps Oriana Bianchetti
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Project Editor Fiona Wild
DTP Designers Maite Lantaron, Lee Redmond
Production Marie Ingledew, David Proffit
Managing Editors Fay Franklin, Louise Bostock Lang
Managing Art Editor Annette Jacobs
Editorial Director Vivien Crump
Art Director Gillian Allan Female head sculpted in the
Publisher Douglas Amrine
5th century BC (see pp34–5)
Contributors Fabrizio Ardito, Cristina Gambaro
Additional tourist information by Marco Scapagnini
Introducing Sicily
Illustrators Giorgia Boli, Silvana Ghioni, Alberto Ipsilanti, Nadia Viganò
English Translation Richard Pierce Discovering Sicily 10
Printed In Malaysia
First American Edition, 2000 Putting Sicily
16 17 18 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
on the Map 16
Published in the United States by DK Publishing,
345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
A Portrait
Reprinted with revisions 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017
of Sicily 18
Copyright © 2000, 2017 Dorling Kindersley Limited, London
A Penguin Random House Company
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved The History
above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, of Sicily 30
photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both
the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
Published in the UK by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Sicily Through
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. the Year 42
ISSN 1542-1554
ISBN 978-1-46545-995-4
Palermo
Floors are referred to throughout in accordance with
Area by Area
European usage; ie the “first floor” is the floor above ground level.
Palermo at a Glance 48

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Backcloth, Museo Internazionale delle
Front cover main image: San Giorgio Cathedral in the heart of Ragusa Ibla, southern Sicily Marionette in Palermo (see pp54–5)
Colorful boats in the harbor at Mondello, on the outskirts of Palermo

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