Sicily: A Cultural History

by Joseph Farrell

Book Overview

Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. Sicily today is familiar and unfamiliar, modernized and unchanging. Visitors will find in an out-of-the-way town an Aragonese castle, will stumble across a Norman church by the side of a lesser travelled road, will see red Muslim-styles domes over a Christian shrine, will find a Baroque...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566569524
• ISBN13: 9781566569521
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"