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From Bagheria, Guttuso (1912–87) painted energetic canvases that spoke out against the Mafia and Fascism and illustrated Sicilian peasant life.

For 18 years this agency has been renting European properties, and they offer more than 50 options in Sicily. They can assist with travel plans and cooking schools.

This residence provides small bungalows that can accommodate any size of group, each with kitchenette and terrace. The park-like setting includes terraces under olive trees. Near the beach.

Nicely furnished, modern apartments in the heart of uptown Palermo between Teatro Massimo and the Politeama. Twenty suites are housed in a newly restored 19th-century palazzo and are all outfitted with a living room and small kitchen.

A cheese by-product used for sweet and savoury dishes. Available fresh, baked, or salted and aged (ricotta salata ).

Outlets of Italy’s two main department stores are located across the street from one another. Rinascente has a more up-market image, but both have good selections of Italian clothing and particularly good houseware departments.

Rice dishes are as plentiful as pasta, and are particularly good with Sicilian lemons, nero di sepia (cuttlefish ink), greens or prawns. A real treat is the elaborate Rippiddu Annivicatu : rice is blackened with squid ink and shaped in a mound to resemble Mount Etna, a topping of ricotta cheese evokes the snowcap, and tomatoes the flames and lava flows.

This daytime bar transforms itself into a romantic restaurant by night. Tables are set out on the sandy beach, lit by torches, and fish caught by Selinunte’s fishermen make up the menu. Try steamed clams and mussels or lobster fettuccini (see La Pineta, Selinunte).

Chef Ciccio Sultano carefully selects each ingredient with which to prepare dishes faithful to Ragusan tradition, but with his own twist. In three small, bright, elegant dining rooms, every course is excellent, starting with the bread basket. Two different tasting menus let you try a bit of everything (see Ristorante Duomo, Ragusa Ibla).