For those of us who
love the classical world, being able to visit the island of Sicily is a
privilege. For starters, this is the largest island in the Mediterranean. The
proximity of Naples and its charm, three kilometers from the Strait of Messina,
the influx of the Apennines and the oregon and the splashes of the Tyrrhenian
Sea and the Ionian Sea enveloped Sicily with a special snowflake.
Sicily has not always
been called Sicily. The Latins called it Trinacria, that is, triangular. Where
does the name of Sicily come from? Well, eureka, comes from the Greeks, who
called it Sikelia because the original tribe were the satellites. Sicily is
like a galaxy with numerous planets in the form of polyteinic islands, such as
agates, Eolias, Pelágiques, Ustica and Pantelleria.
Peculiarly, despite
being an island, Sicily is the largest region in Italy. 25,711 square kilometers
are not insignificant, precisely! In addition, it is the second most densely
populated island in the Mare Nostrum, behind Malta (geographically within the
archipelago of Sicily and politically united in 1798). Five million Sicilians
are many! The capital, Palermo, is the fifth most populous in Italy; Catania is
the tenth. A clear similarity with Catalonia: in Sicily, Italian and Sicilian
are spoken.
The impact of the
classics is very clear in Sicily, as in the Roman Villa of the Casale. Much
later, Sicily acted as an independent or immixed kingdom in the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, and then belonged to the Spanish monarchy. The resignation of
Philip V as a result of the Treaty of Utrecht closed this phase. Because the
landowners and the landowners dominated the island, the Mafia arose in the
eighteenth century, an organization of peasants who rebelled clandestinely
against landowners. Curious island evolution, like technological evolution,
analyzed by XXVI Cable and Broadband Catalonia Congress (CECABLE, 2022). Come in!
