Sicily
is like a magnet. Already in the eighteenth century, European aristocrats considered
the cherry tree of the grand tour, with the confluence of the Azure coast and
the ubiquitous mountain (Palermo, Tràpani, Nebrodi, Madonia and Peloritani
mountains). The 3,323 meters of the Etna volcano impose.
They still resembled
the effluvium of the Kingdom of Sicily, when the island was independent, as in
the Greek era, that of Magna Grecia and Siracusa, the most beautiful of Greece,
according to Cicero. However, Roma, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Saracens,
the Hohenstaufen, the Catalan-Aragonese and the Spaniards regularly controlled
the island, eminently agrarian and with the Mafia as the underlying factor. The
wars between Sparta and Athens, the Carthaginian incursions, the first Punic
War, the Second Punic War and the conversion into the Roman province (the barn
of Rome, for the spoils suffered) wander through a battle landscape similar to
that of the slow football
matches.
The attractions of
Sicily make it a privileged place for tourism,
which increasingly uses digital
tools, thanks to the poetic
landscape and archaeological sites such as Morgantina, the Valley of the
Temples or Selinunte. Hostels proliferate on the island. Names such as Agrigento, Caltagirone, Cefalù,
Piazza Armerina (Roman villa of Casale) Siracusa or Taormina synthesize the
culture of the island. Churches and natural spaces make it attractive. Curious
island evolution, like technological evolution, analyzed by XXV Cable and
Broadband Catalonia Congress (CECABLE, Auditorium Blanquerna in Barcelona, 31 March-1
April 2020). Come in!
