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	Egadi islands Sicily
		Favignana is the main island of the Egadi Islands (Aegadian Islands).
		The eastern half of the island is largely flat, while the western half is composed by lots of small hills, the highest is Monte Santa Caterina (314 m).
		Levanzo is the smallest and nearest of the 3 Egadi islands.
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	Cruises Egadi and Pelagie islands, Ustica e Pantelleria
		The island is famous for the fishing of the tuna, every year in the April period and July the tradition of the Tonnara and the Mattanza renews him.
		It is the smallest of the three islands Egadi, that with the smaller number of inhabitants and with the almost total lack of vehicles.
		Volcanic island that is born from the abysses, the sea that surrounds it appropriates of all the tones and gradations of blue, from the clearest and crystalline tonalities and those more intense and deep.
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		Egadi Islands apartments Its thick forests were renowned, but the Romans plundered them to build their great naval fleets and the myriad wooden homes that fueled Nero's infamous fire.
		Egadi Islands apartments Mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey and thought to be the home of Aeolus (the god of the wind) by the ancient Greeks, they offer spectacular volcanic scenery and fine beaches.
		Sicily is a mountainous island — an extension of the Apennine Mountains separated from the mainland by the Straits of Messina.
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		But perhaps Rome's most lasting (and infamous) contribution to the island came in fostering the great land ownerships which eventually impoverished the peasantry and led, many centuries later, to the founding of secret societies aimed at destroying the fabulously wealthy landlords.
		Egadi Islands weather forecast Spectacularly situated along a wide sweep of bay at the foot of Monte Pellegrino, Palermo was the wealthiest and most magnificent city in Europe in the 12th century.
		Egadi Islands weather forecast This became known as the Sicilian Mafia organised upon what can roughly be translated as "respect", "dignity" and "silence".
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		Egadi, situated Archipelago offshore of the extreme western point of Sicily, in front of the line of coast that from Trapani (what of it is the province) it actually reaches Marsala, among the sea north Tyrrhenian and the sea of Sicily to south.
		Near the islands Egadi was fought, in the 241 a.C., a naval battle won by the Romans on the Carthaginian ones that it was decisive for the fates of the first war punica, marking of it in fact the end.
		Favignana situated offshore the point north - western of Sicily, between the Tyrrhenian sea and the sea of Sicily; it is the principal one of the archipelago of the Egadis, the province it is Trapani, from which distant 17 kms.
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		These islands are a little outside of time, where the tourist can abandon themselves happily to the rhythm of life so different from their own.
		To the north of Favignana emerges the island of Levanzo, the smallest of the Egadi islands.
		Levanzo is an island to explore by foot, along the paths that rise toward the mountain and along the coasts.
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	Egadi Islands, Italy
		The largest island is Favignana, which is also where the only center of population is to be found; next in size are Lévanzo and Maréttimo.
		The islands had an important historical role when in 241 B.C. the Romans ended the first Punic War here with their victory over the Carthaginians.
		In 1860 the islands served as a hiding place for Garibaldi's ships, before the freedom fighter crossed over with his "company of a thousand" to the coast of Sicily on 11th May and began his triumphal march.
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		Favignana, Levanzo, Marettimo, are islands around Sicily perhaps less known to tourists, and forthis reason good placet for those who do not love mass tourism.
		The first true appearance of these islands in history dates from the fifteenth century, when they were transformed into a "barony of the tuna fish" and assigned to Giovanni de Karissima.
		It was thanks to tuna fishing that the three islands, and especially Favignana, in the space of a few decades reached great prosperity, shared by everyone, from the last fisherman to the entrepreneurs.
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	Egadi Islands Hotels Sicily
		The historical and archeological importance of the Archipelago of the Egadi Islands dates back to the famous battle of the Egadio Islands in 241 B.C. Numerous remains have been found here, the most important of which has to be the Nave Punica, now at Baglio Anselmi, Marsala.
		Levanzo, the smallest island, is famous for the Grotta del Genovese.
		Marittimo is the oldest, and most mountainous of the Egadi islands, as well as the most distant; its urban center can be found on Punta San Simeone.
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		Egadi Islands, also Aegadian Isles (ancient Aegates), group of islands in the Mediterranean Sea, southern Italy, off the western coast of Sicily....
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		The Aegates islands, ìnhabited since pre-historic times and known to classical antiquity, were owned by the Pallavicini-Rusconi family tiIl the 19th century, when they became Florio property and then passed to the Parodis.
		This is the main island of this archipelago; it lies to the south and the terrain is mostly fairly flat with a hilly ridge, whìle its highest point is Monte Santa Caterina (302 m).
		The most important prehistoric site on the island is the Genovese cave, its walls decorated with rock carvings and paintings of animal figures dating to the Paieolithic and Neolithic periods.
	www.sicily-italy.it /isoleegadi.htm (281 words)

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		Siremar connects the Egadi Islands by ferry (for automobiles) or hydrofoil leaving from Trapani.
		Obviously, in Egadi, fish is the unrivaled king of gastronomy.
		Dulcis in fundo… the typical sweet of Egadi is "cassatedde," made of fried ravioli stuffed with ricotta and chocolate chips and sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar.
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		Today the islands are visited by a great number of tourists fascinated by their uncontamined century-old beauty.
		The major island of the Egadi, Ancient Aegusa has an area of 19 SqKm., it is 9 km.
		The tonnara (“tunny-fishing”) of Favignana, the largest island of the Egadi, are the most important in Sicily, with a haul which has reached the amount of 5000 tunnies in a season.
	www.itinerari-di-sicilia.it /sicilia-provincia-dettaglio.asp?idp=trapani&lingua=EN&id=egadi (340 words)

	Egadi Islands travel guide - Wikitravel
		Europe : Mediterranean Europe : Italy : Sicily : Egadi Islands
		The Egadi Islands[1] are a group of three islands about 10km west of Sicily in Italy.
		The are car ferries and much quicker hydrofoils from Trapani on Sicily to the islands - lots in Summer, with fewer during Spring, Autumn and Winter and on Sundays.
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	Collection of selected Luxury Castles, hotels and resort in Pantelleria Egadi Islands Sicily
		This is both Sicily's biggest and most outlying island (situated 55 miles from the Sicilian Capo Granitola and 46 miles from the Tunisian Cape Bon).
		The mountain is surrounded by 24 "cuddle" (small craters that recall the volcanic origins of this islands), lava flows, residues of pumice-stone, basalts, fumaroles and thermal sources (Gadir, Nicà, Satana).
		The island was Phoenician (Hirani), Greek (Cossyra), Arab in the IX century (Bent el Rhion, "Daughter of the wind'), Swabian, Angevin, Aragonese and Bourbon.
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	AllRefer.com - Egadi Islands, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Egadi Islands[e´gAdE] Pronunciation Key or Aegadian Isles[EgA´dEun] Pronunciation Key, Lat.
		The chief islands are Favignana, Maretti-mo, and Levanzo.
		A Roman naval victory over the Carthaginians in the battle of the Aegates, fought near the islands in 241
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		The island is often referred to as La Farfalla on account of its shape which has been likened to a butterfly a-flutter over the blue sea.
		Favignana città – The main town of the island, indeed of the archipelago, is built around a small port that nestles in a large bay.
		Only one road bisects the island from south to north, making it a veritable haven of peace and serenity, beloved by nature-lovers and those who seek solitude and rhythms set by the breaking waves or by the sound of ones own feet on the stones.
	www.trapani-sicilia.it /english/isole_egadi.htm (1981 words)

	Egadi Islands Beach Vacation Guide
		Of the various islands, islets and rock stacks that fan out from the west coast of Sicily, the three Egadi Islands (Isole Egadi) are best for a quick jaunt - connected by ferry and hydrofoil with Trapani.
		But a tour of the islands is worthwhile, not least for the caves that perforate the splintered coastlines.
		Favignana, island and port town, is first stop for the boats from Trapani, a good base since it has virtually all the accommodation and the Egadi's only campsites.
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		The islands around Sicily are split into three island groups (the Aeolians, the Egadi and the Pelagie) and two strays (Ustica and Pantelleria).
		Inhabited since pre-history (Levanzo boasts some of the oldest cave paintings to be found in Europe), they changed little until the advent of the tuna industry in the 19th century, which took advantage of the thousands of tons of tuna that swam each year around their coasts.
		To the south of the western most tip of Sicily and closer to Africa than to Europe, the "fl pearl of the Mediterranean", the volcanic island of Pantelleria, is the largest of all Sicilian islands and was the first stepping stone for the Arab invasion of Sicily in the eight century AD.
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	Definition of Egadi Islands - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		islands Italy off W coast of Sicily area 15 square miles (39 square kilometers), population 4335
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		Favignana is communal the main island and copoluogo of the islands; é mostly pianeggiante but it catches up in the higher point 300m (the Saint mount Caterina) of height.
		To signal the presence of a porticciolo and to visit "Florio palace".
		Levanzo is the island more to North and neighbor to the TP.
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		The Aegadian islands (Italian Isole Egadi; Latin Aegales Insulae), are a group of small mountainous islands off the north western coast of Sicily.
		Favignana (Aegusa), the largest, lies 10 miles south west of Trapani; Levanzo (Phorbantia) 8 miles west; while Marettimo, the ancient iera nesos, 15 miles west of Trapani, is now reckoned as a part of the group.
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		For the summer visitors may want to consider holidaying on the Egadi islands.
		They can be reached in a few minutes from Trapani yet offer a detached and luxuriant contrast to the white, parched salt plains.
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	Egadi Islands travel guide - Wikitravel
		The Egadi Islands[1] are a group of three islands about 10km west of Sicily in Italy.
		Favignana - the main island, well known for its beaches.
		The are car ferries and much quicker hydrofoils from Trapani on Sicily to the islands - lots in Summer, with fewer during Spring, Autumn and Winter and on Sundays.
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	Egadi Islands — FactMonster.com
		The chief islands are Favignana, Maretti-mo, and Levanzo.
		Aegates - Aegates: Aegates: see Egadi Islands, Italy.
		Aegadian Isles - Aegadian Isles: Aegadian Isles: see Egadi Islands, Italy.
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		21 miles from Sicily this is a far island of Egadi Islands.
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	Egadi Islands - Encyclopedia.com
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		A Roman naval victory over the Carthaginians in the battle of the Aegates, fought near the islands in 241 BC, ended the first of the Punic Wars.
		For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.
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	Egadi Islands - Definition of Egadi Islands by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Egadi Islands - a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean
		Synonyms: Aegadean Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegates, Isole Egadi
		Aegadean Islands, Aegadean Isles, Aegates, island, Isole Egadi, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, Sicilia, Sicily
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		My time in Sicily is winding down, and I decided that today would be the day for a trip to Favignana, the largest of the three Egadi Islands that sit off the coast near Trapani.
		About 600,000 years ago the islands were connected to the mainland.
		As the sea level gradually rose, the connections were submerged, and they became an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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		Egadi Islands - Travel guide Hotel reservation for holidays in Egadi Islands -
		The Egadi Islands are a group of three islands about 10km west of Sicily in Italy.
		Favignana - the main island, well known for its beaches.
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