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Catania Cuisine!!

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Sicily is a land unlike any other region of Italy and the residents love to make that point!!

Of course there were many opportunities to sample great food and this pastry shop on the main piazza in Catania drew our group in two times in three days!! Oh, those cannolis!!
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