Mezzagnone -from a Mausoleo to an Hammam !!

a few days I stopped to work as a tourist guide to attend a seminar about a project between the province of Ragus and Malta for a workshop about Heritage trails in the minor archaeological sites of the two areas.

It was a great occasion to be half student and half tourist!

Here and in next posts the places included in the project ARCHEOTUR we studied and visited.

MEZZAGNONE -Bagno a Mare

near the little town of Santa Croce Camarina:

it has been considered the ruin of a Christian church with Latin Cross for years.

Nowadays there's no doubt,after some archaelogical excavations and investigations.

It was a mausoleo,that is a Funeral monument of the VIth century when the Gotes had just invaded Sicily before Bellisario led its conquest by the Byzantine.

Then , the building changed into an Hammam during the Arabs.

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