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Evening Standard
Travel
Rosalyn Wikeley

Inspired by Charli xcx's wedding? How to plan a late spring or autumn break to Sicily

From its splendid baroque cities to the clifftop scenes — as immortalised by photographer Slim Aarons — and the largely unexplored timewarp areas beyond its sun-bleached coastline, Sicily is alluringly diverse in its landscape.

Centuries of invasion from various civilisations have bestowed the island with a mosaic-like cultural identity — you’ll find couscous and sweet puddings introduced by the Arabs, Norman architecture interwoven with Moorish domes, and cold-pressed chocolate pinched by the Spanish from the Aztecs.

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