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Cous cous dolce Sweet cous cous is made also with marzapane its a secret of the Nuns at S.Spirito in Agrigento. a few days more and I'll taste it again!

walking through the steps on the Monreale's Belltower breathtaking view on the precious S. Maria La Nova's cloister

Islamic art Museum at Zisa Palace- Palermo This is a superb piece that shows  how multicultural, multilingual was Sicily in the XII century still at the times of Roger II's A marble funeral inscription for a Christian lady  written in four different languages including their  different calendars dating systems : Arabic-Jewish in the uppe part Latin on the left Greek on thew right   Arabic in the lower part That's why I like to say we feel Mediterranean........ I dedicate it  as a symbol of tollerance  and integration among people  to all the thousands  men, women and children looking for a new and better life  coming as illegal immigrants in Sicily

so cute!!!!! look the way the move hands!!!

very happy today!!  a private tour around the ruins of  the altar Of Hieron II in Siracusa the largest Greek sacrificial altar usually not open to visitors! many thanks to the Direzione Parco archeologico  Neapolis Siracusa

Experience Sicily: have a good breakfast!  

 There are various places that make Siracusa unique to all its visitors but some places are more special than others: in the heart of the modern town here between the Latomie of S. Venera and Paradiso between greek quarries roman and byzantine cemeteries  and orchards

 Magic Beauty Passion Myth and Human fragility and... Ancient Theatres in Sicily ...what else? Siracusa Siracusa Akrai Akrai Taormina Taormina Segesta Segesta Morgantina Morgantina

there are many places we can describe as really magic in Sicily! The Zisa Palace is really magic for its amazing beauty  but some visitors maybe don't know that  the Zisa Palace has something else magic to offer .. and I experienced it! In the archway that welcomes into the superb fountain hall  on the ground floor there's a fresco representing some mythological images:  the Gods of the Olimpo said to be the guardians of treasure hidden there Everybody nicknames them as the Devils of the Zisa as nobody can't really count exactly how many they are and it is said that when somebody will do it  Poverty will die in Palermo! Tha's why there's a  very popular way of saying in Palermo when  there's somethng wrong  or when it's terribly windy and stormy :  "E chi su li diavoli di la Zisa?" What I can say is that exactly when I was trying to count those figures a few days ago a very strong wind...

 In one of the oldest and popular quarters in Palermo there's really a "magnificent" palace as its Arabic name suggests: The Zisa (Al Aziz )  once private residence of the Norman kings in their private gardens of  the Geonard ( Arabic for Paradise in Earth )  Its one of the best examples  of  an astonishing architecture  with a purely Islamic inspiration the ground floor hall with the fountain the central hall on the top floor was an open atrium with a breathtaking  view the central the muquarnas : the miniature stalactite vaults in the niches and windows  today the Zisa home to the  Museum of Islamic arts  collecting  metalwork, ceramic  and wooden lattice work (Mushrabirryya )   down below the view of the Zisa district today where  we can just imagine the perfumes and the luxury vegetation of its gardens once also hunting...

various transports - La Zisa in Palermo -