Your Sicily Trip Starts Here

How this map is built

Every point on this map was researched and added by hand. Nothing here is imported from a public database or scraped from other travel sites, which is why there are 75 places rather than several thousand — coordinates, the comune and province, how hard somewhere is to reach, how long it realistically takes to visit and what it costs are all checked before a pin exists at all.

Each place also carries a last verified date. Opening hours change, beaches lose their Blue Flag, sites close for restoration and ferry routes get cut, so a pin that was accurate two summers ago is not automatically accurate now. Where something has changed and I know about it, the card says so — the Scala dei Turchi card, for instance, states the €6 ticket and the daily visitor cap rather than the "free to visit" that was true until 2026.

What the filters actually mean

The category chips combine with and, not or. Selecting Beaches and Family shows family-friendly beaches, not every beach plus every family-friendly place — which is how most people read it, and which is why a chip greys out when combining it with what you already picked would leave nothing on the map.

Hidden gems is not a synonym for remote. It marks places that are genuinely under-visited relative to how good they are, which sometimes means an hour from a major city and sometimes means a street most people walk past. Getting there is an access rating, not a hiking rating: one star means you can park beside it, and the top of the scale is reserved for places you can only reach by boat.

Using it to plan a real trip

The trip planner above sequences regions the way you would actually drive them — one loop around the island rather than jumping coast to coast — and fills each day against a time budget instead of a fixed number of stops, so a full-day site like Etna does not end up sharing a morning with three other places. Tell it where you land, how long you have and whether you have a car, and it will not propose anything the last of those makes unrealistic.

Tap any pin for the full card: why it is worth going, what it costs, how long to allow, how busy it gets and the best time to be there. Where a place has a full article on this site, the card links straight to it. You can save places with the heart icon and then show only those, and the map remembers them on your device between visits.