Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is located just off the "toe" of Italy's boot. In the ancient Greek poem the ...

It is the third largest Mediterranean island—140 miles from east to west and at most 60 miles north to south. During the Late Pleistocene, an epoch lasting from around 130,000 to 12,000 years ...

Sardinia, the Mediterranean's second-largest island after Sicily, is often dubbed the Maldives of Europe thanks to its ...

Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, is full of white-sand beaches, it’s surrounded by warm water, it enjoys year-round sunshine, and it has one of the healthiest diets in the ...