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The history of the island is many rich of various vicissitudes and cultures that have been ollowed in the course of the centuries.
Every population that inhabited, has contributed it with the own civilization and the own traditions to increase the patrimony sicilian and to influence the fates and the culture of the natives.
Evocative testimonies of its pre-history have been recovered in the parietal recordings and the discovery of the Paleolithic period in the coves of S.Teodoro, of Levanzo or the Addaura, this last decorated with the most remarkable graffiti. According to Tucidide (the Athenian historian exiled in Sicily author of one History of the firm Sicily that to the 435 a.C.) the first inhabitants of the island in year 1000 a.C. were the Elimi, the Sicani and the Sicilian ones that gave also the name to them; but already they give beyond a millenium the Sicily was lived from populations that risentivano of the influences of the fenicia and cretese civilizations.