Although southern Sicily is one of the island’s quietest corners, marked by hinterland and a sprinkling of sleepy towns and villages, the region boasts two major sights: Agrigento's Greek temples and the Roman mosaics at the Villa Imperiale del Casale.

Southern Sicily is the most enigmatic region of an enigmatic island, its miels of lonely coast and empty beaches, classical ruins, and insular fishing villages backed by wheat-rich plains that give rise to mostly deserted mountains. While major attractions are few, those that are here – notably the temples of Agrigento and mosaics of Casale – rank among Europe’s finest Greek and Roman sites.

Inland routes through the mountains are slower, but also rewarding in their way, bringing you face to face with slumbering hill villages, sweeping panoramas, and a Sicily that has not changed in a hundred years.