Hertz Sicily Palermo Train Station Car Hire

You rent a car at one of the international airports at one of the great car hire companies such as Avis, Budobtain or Sixt or in the larger cities. Sicily is wonderfully suitable for a round trip with the car and one success as an impression of this beautiful Italian island.

Location, landscape and climate

Sicily with a total area of 25.703 km², is the largest island and is located southwest from the "Stiefelspitze" Italy. The best known feature is probably located about 30 km from the capital of the province of Catania, active Mount Etna.

The island is aufobtaineilt in nine provinces and municipalities of 390. Palermo is the Northwest, capital of Sicily. Other large cities are Catania, Messina with ferry links to Italy, the historically significant Syracuse. If you want to go with a rental car via ferry to Sicily, you should check the terms and conditions however necessarily advance! Not every car hire allows the crossing by ferry. This should not be forgotten when renting a car.

Sicily a Mediterranean climate with mild winters and hot dry summers.80% of the area consists of mountains and hills. There are also flat areas, used especially for fruit and vegetables in the South and the hinterland of Catania. In the spring when the offer many almond trees bloom, the island is your most beautiful and color gewaltigsten page.

Holiday activities and general information

Holiday activities there is here. While you can operate in the winter on the Etna, the largest skiing area in southern Europe, winter sports, the hinterland with its romantic village on trekking tours or with a rental car can be explored in the summer. From April till November invites the bathing season for relaxing sunbathing on the numerous, long and sandy beaches. Cefalù, Mondello, Taormina are popular beach resorts, where you can also surf, Skyten and diving. The best wind surfing areas are Puncta Secca and Portopalo in South-Eastern and can be reached with a car in no time, unless it has rented his apartment just outside.

The underlying versträut Sicily island archipelagos, are worth a visit. These include the Aeolian Islands Lipari, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Panarea, Vulcano and Stromboli, the Pelagie Islands, Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione and the Egadi Islands with Marettimo, Levanzo and Favignana.

By its convoluted history and the cultures changing in the course of time many, Sicily is also called the island of the thousand faces and offers many valuable historical attractions, such as for example the old baroque town of Catania, which is to the UNESCO - World Heritage site along with eight other towns of the Val di Noto.