Reggio di Calabria (LICR) - Agrigento (LITY).
Italy.
Flight No. 017.
1. Reggio - Catania: Taking off from Reggio we circled the Old Town to gain altitude before heading out across the Strait of Messina (Pic 1). On the other side we turned south near Giampilieri Marina (Pic 2) to follow Highway A18 past Furci Siculo (Pic 3), Taormina (Pic 4) and Chianchitta (Pic 5) to Catania (Pic 6).
2. Catania - Dittaino: To keep to major roads and reach Agrigento we left A18 near Catania and followed A19 into the center of Sicily, always with Mount Etna looming in the distance (Pic 7). We passed Catenanuova on Dittaino River (Pic 8) to reach the Dittaino Industrial Complex (PIc 8).
3. Dittaino - Caltanissetta: We came across something familiar to all fans of Classical Antiquity! The town of Enna, which is situated on a real Akropolis, awakening memories of Old Athens in Hellas (Pic 10 & 11). Further west we reached the more level city of Caltanissetta (Pic 12).
4. Caltanissetta - Agrigento: A last look back towards Central Sicily and the now distant Mount Etna (Pic 13) and we are off to the southern coast! Descending towards Agrigento and Favara (Pic 14) we landed for the last time on Italian and European ground at the Aviosuperficie Agrigento (Pic 15)!
Transfer: We transfer by ship to Tunesia, beginning the next flight at DTTA in Tunis!