Alternative tours amid Nature and antiquities are definetely possible from March to October across the region of the Madonie Mountains.
This part of Sicily is mostly a regional park where guests’ mind is often geared for small details while wandering an unspoiled upland, carpeted with cyclamen and asphodel, borage and wild orchids and covered by large forests,totally unexpected in a Mediterrenean island. Goatherds share the envinronment with foxes, deer and birds of prey and here, up on the Madonie, you can still hear sheepbells and the deeper clang of cowbells. while tasting a spread of local delicacies, bread and wine, salads and salami, cheese and fruit like sweet blood oranges, during a picnic under some gnarled old holm oak.
It is so easy to venture far of the beaten track and, through a gap in the hills ahead, see the Sea, blue and homeric, just as you have imagined it as well as the chief landmark Mount Etna covered in snow.
Medieval towns and villages, like Gangi, Petralia Soprana, Castelbuono tell how Sicily was tossed down through centuries where cultural brilliance has alternated to exhaustion and decay, and such a past left its mark in castles, narrow streets and concealed courtyyards as well as in the rich interiors of churches and noble palaces.
