Considerations, a bridge to connect the Strait, are similar to old as similar ideas to take the British French Channel coast and like seriously. The capital of the island about five million inhabitants is Palermo. Here, many cruise ships on a Mediterranean Moor cruise. Other major cities are in the order of size, Catania, Messina and Syracuse. Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) was educated in Palermo and, where he founded a school of poets. The island is dominated by the still active volcano Mount Etna erupted early 1983 again. An attempt to steer his lava flow with explosions in what ways, has almost failed. Sicily is a popular tourist destination despite its bad reputation as a mafia island.
The Italian island of Sardinia is only marginally smaller than Sicily with 24089 square kilometers. The Sardinians are considered idiosyncratic folk of the Italian Association of peoples. About 1.5 million people, of which a quarter of a million in the capital Cagliari live on the island. Here you get on your cruise Mediterranean. Occasionally, cruise ships call at and Olbia. Italy freedom hero Giuseppe Garibaldi retreated for the last years of his life on the tiny island of Caprera in the North Sardinia; There is today a Garibaldi Memorial. If you on your Mediterranean Cruise come to Naples, you can translate Capri Capri. Ferries run directly next to the cruise ships.
The neighbouring island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples (Procida is third in the League) applies since the days of Emperor Augustus as Jetset-treff (or as it was called that in Alt-Rom) the Roman crowd. After the war the nice but busy island was due a German dream destination, a hit called Capri fishermen and Axel Munthes book of San Michele”. The Swedish doctor wrote that a world bestseller, his mansion is today a popular pilgrimage destination of its reader community.