The central hills near the Mafia headquarters of Corleone. 

(photo taken late April 2003)

The view from Hotel Bel Soggiorno (Taormina) of the nearby east coast. Mt Etna looms with its steam plume (late April 2003).

The Greek ruin of Segesta hides in a secluded valley in the central hills. 

(photo taken late April 2003)

 The Greek ruin of Selinunte lies along the south coast an hour west of Agrigento. 

(photo taken April 2003)

Another view of the Greek temple at Selinunte (temple E, dedicated to Hera, built in the 5th century BC.)

 NASA orbital photo of sicily, from earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Sicily

•  Sicilian language (in Sicilian:Lu Sicilianu)
•  Origin of the The Sicels (Latin: Siculi; Greek: Σικελοί) and the Sea Peoples
•  Archimedes and the Burning Mirrors

List of Sicilians

• Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher
• Gorgias (c. 483 BC – 375 BC), philosopher
• Dion (408-354 BC), politician and friend of Plato
• Timaeus (c. 345 BC – 250 BC), historian
• Theocritus (c. 310 BC – 250 BC), poet
• Archimedes (c. 287 BC – 212 BC), scientist  Noli turbare circulos meos
  
• Diodorus Siculus (c. 90 BC – 30 BC), historian
• Pope Leo II, Pope from 682 to 683
• Jawhar as-Siqilli (911 - 922) Military leader, founder of Cairo
• Cielo d'Alcamo (c. 1200 – 1250), poet
• Giacomo da Lentini (1210 – 1260), poet
• Guido Delle Colonne (1215 – 1290), poet
• Antonello da Messina (1430 – 1479), painter
• Antonello Gagini (1478 – 1536), sculptor
• Francesco Maurolico (1494 – 1575), mathematician
• Sigismondo d'India (1582 – 1629), composer
• Pietro Novelli (1603 – 1647), painter
• Giacomo Serpotta (1656 – 1732), sculptor
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725), composer
• Filippo Juvarra (1678 – 1736), architect
• Giovanni Battista Vaccarini (1702 – 1768), architect
• Giovanni Meli (1740 – 1815), poet
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835), opera composer
• Giuseppe La Farina (1815 – 1863), politician
• Francesco Crispi (1819 – 1901), politician
• Emanuele Realmuto (1830 – 1857), Prince
• Ignazio Florio (1839 – 1891), business man
• Giovanni Verga (1840 – 1922), novelist
• Giuseppe Sergi (1841 – 1936), anthropologist
• Vito Cascio Ferro (1862 – 1943), mafioso
• Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936), dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Nino Martoglio (1870 – 1921), poet
• Luigi Sturzo (1871 – 1959), politician
• Giovanni Gentile (1875 – 1944), philosopher
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957), writer, poet
• Julius Evola (1898 – 1974), political philosopher
• Ignazio Buttitta (1899 – 1997), poet
• Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 – 1968), poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Ettore Majorana (1906 – ?), scientist
• Renato Guttuso (1912 – 1987), painter
• Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), novelist
• Antonino Zichichi (born 1929), scientist
• Bernardo Provenzano (born 1933), mafioso
• Nino Vaccarella (born 1933), racecar driver
• Giovanni Falcone (1939 – 1992), judge
• Paolo Borsellino (1940 – 1992), judge
• Franco Battiato (born 1945), musician, filmmaker
• Giuseppe Tornatore (born 1956), filmmaker
• Domenico Dolce (born 1958), fashion designer
• Angelo d'Arrigo (1961 – 2006), aviator
• Anna Kanakis (born 1962), model, actress
• Salvatore Schillaci (born 1964), football player
• Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 1969), actress
• Roy Paci (born 1969), musician