Selinunte: sitting there overwhelmed by those columns of my great past looking at the horizon towards Africa I felt like suspended between past and past past and present what about our future then?
Walking from the Pescheria the Sicilian version of an arabic Souk in Catania, walking around the fountain of the Amenano, "u linzolu" called for the visual effect of the waterfalls, this is the elegant Duomo square appearing before your eyes!
This is in Agrigento now! Agrigento's view from the magic Valley of its Temples In Sicily almonds trees are blooming now! So why to change date for the traditional Almond blossom Festival? Sure! I forgot no money, no sponsors but Nature doesnt' wait
Would you say that this lovely room stands up above the ancient Greek-Roman theatre in Catania?? Look down here: the view from one of the balconies in casa Liberti!! Not long time ago, the owner left her house (she was a Latin &Greek teacher) and Casa Liberti now is a lovely museum
Walking Sure!!!! Walking around you can learn some more Sicilian Look at this! How to say Sure ? A cettu! What a pity! the teacher wrote it on the doors of St Peter's once a medieval little church in Ortigia (Siracusa)
(by doing it yourself) On the doors in a house in Ortigia: Don't park your car, your motorbike your mother in law your bike I'd like to open and shut the doors! Thanks!!!
It's orange time in Sicily! You can find everywhere also during a guiding tour in the magic place of the ancient Greek stonequarries in Siracusa enjoy it!
Ragusa Ibla almost a timeless atmsphere in a magic silence just my voice talking about one of the most authentic Sicilian Baroque beauty to my tourists when a voice on a megaphone shouted announcing the arrival of fresh fruits and vegetables in just a few seconds some local people in the surroundings appeared around the little cart my tourists run away towards the crowd leaving me at the top of the stairs taking pictures laughing and I with them the lady you saw in the picture told us she needed fresh spinach for her scaccia so the following question was: Lucia, what is a scaccia?? and in a moment the magic Baroque was forgotten and we started talking about the magic Sicilian food...
So called as it was property of the annexed Capucins' friars convent till 1866 these Latomie (stone quarries) are among the largest and ancient quarries of the Greek Syracuse a luxury Mediterranean vegetation into the heart of the modern city today they still show clearly the traces of the stone blocks extracted for buildings since the VI BC and maybe (Thucidites quotes the episode) they where the tragic prisons of the thousands of Atheniens soldiers captured after their defeat (V BC) in the Great Harbour, not far away from these places