Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Sicily
Detourmap lists 131 places in Sicily, Italy, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Mount Etna. 91 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 131
- Oldest
- Mount Etna 300,000 years ago
- Little known
- 91 of 131
- Share of Italy
- 7%
Sicily 131
The 120 best known of 131. The other 11 are on the map and on the Italy pages.
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1.Mount Etna
Nature · 3000th century BC · Iconic
Active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy
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33.Vulcano
Nature · Notable
Volcano on a small volcanic island by the same name in the Tyrrhenian Sea
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40.Temple of Juno
Archaeological · 5th century BC · Notable
Ancient temple in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
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48.Roman amphitheatre of Catania
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Roman amphitheatre in Catania, Sicily, Italy
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68.Cave di Cusa
Archaeological · 6th century BC · Hidden gem
Former stone quarry site in Sicily, Italy
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76.Monte Polizzo
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in the municipality of Salemi, in Sicily, Italy
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77.Polizzello archaeological site
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Mussomeli, Italy
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83.Temple F
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Doric order temple at Selinunte likely dating to the sixth century BC
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84.Temple of Demeter
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Classical temple under San Biagio church, ancient Akragas, Sicily
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104.Roman furnaces in Alcamo
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Province of Trapani, Italy
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105.Church of the Annunciation
Archaeological · 14th century · Hidden gem
Church building in Alcamo, Italy
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108.Anguilla necropolis
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in the Italian comune of Ribera in the province of Agrigento in Sicily
Elsewhere in Italy
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Sicily?
Mount Etna, 3000th century BC. Active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Sicily?
131: 84 archaeological & historic sites and 47 nature & landscapes. 91 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Sicily?
Mount Etna, dated to 300,000 years ago. 13 of the 131 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Sicily here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Sicily if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Sicily is a first-level division of Italy, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.