5Egadi islands

Another island chain off the coast of Sicily, the Egadi, or Aegadian, Islands are a cluster of three small volcanic islets.

The trio remain one of Sicily’s best kept secrets to all but well-healed Italians.These islands wrote the book on slow-paced life; there’s little to do but relax and unplug from the world as you satiate yourself with platefuls of local pasta, carafes of red wine and spread out on your own sandy cove.