Sicily is a place of legend and myth. Its culture is exceptionally multi-layered and reflects some 2700 years of history. Read an introduction to this extraordinary place including key elements of its history, the origins of its cuisine as well as its architecture...

In around the 3rd to the 2nd century BCE, Greek colonists founded a small town on the Dalmatian coast named Aspálathos (Ἀσπάλαθος). We know the town today as Split, Croatia. Together with the nearby Roman city of Salona, the settling of this small town would shape the landscape and history of this region for millennia to come.