Dramatic Sicily inspires

IT’S questionable whether Sicily is Italian at all.

With a population of six million people on an area of almost 10,000 square miles, it could easily be a country in its own right — and many Sicilians think it is!

It vastly overshadows its neighbouring island, the nation-state of Malta, which measures only 124 square miles with 390,000 inhabitants. Nonetheless when Giuseppe Garibaldi set about unifying Italy, the island at the toe was included in his ambitions.