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about religious festivals in Sicily... about life in Sicily this is a wonderful video shot in Catania  during St Agata feast                                                  http://vimeo.com/36189168

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!

 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 

 

Scicli: St Bartolomeo Modica -The Castle Catania . u' Liotru - The Elephant Noto - The Cathedral The carpet of flowers in via Nicolaci - Noto Last weekend in Noto!

Mount Etna is smoking and erupting....again and again... airport in Catania can be closed as ashes of lava make landing dangerous there... and we're still waiting that the airport in Comiso(ready already !!!!)is going to open... That's Sicily guys! Ashes of lava also in Siracusa!!!!

Agathé A great event during the feast dedicated to St. Agata in Catania, in these days! On the occasion of the exibition dedicated to Modigliani, the Italian maudì painter, a portrait of Agata, never seen before attributed to Modigliani (1919), has been the attraction of the event. it was found by a collectionist amd for years kept folded, attached to a letter. It could be a present to Catania, which , anyway,was never visited by Modigliani, but where the brothers of him stayed for a while. Only one article, by the Osservatorio Romano newspaper, have some doubts about its authenticity. A neverending curtigghiu = gossip raised. The great idea that the local representative of the Tourist and Cultural department ( Mariella Ferrera = a famous Italian fashion stylist): Next Sunday, February 13th all the students of the Academy of Arts in Catania will meet at Castello Ursino square to paint their own most beautiful "false" Agata!!!!! Great! that's Sicilian origi...

A nice afternoon between sacred and profane One hour driving from Siracusa and we were in the wonderful Castle Ursino in Catania for MOdigliani exibition...   nice walking, meeting other friends...and then in perfect but wrong Sicilian style, we parked the car on second line..... just to have a look..a quick look, we said.. these days from 3th February Catania is celebrating her patron Saint S. Agata..... we did some pictures, we looked around fully forgetting about our car..... others horning reminded us...... sorry!!!! "but just for a minute!!!" (this is the common sentence people tell me when I'm waiting someone parking just behind my car on a second line! I HATE  IT!) we did..we said... sorry!

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alcuni giorni fa ho approfittato di di un passaggio ed ho trascorso un paio d'ore a Catania, da turista!!! niente male....da quasi un anno è stata ultimata l'autostrada e così da Siracusa la si può raggiungere in  meno di 40 minuti o poco più... a few days ago I spent a couple of hours in Catania, like a tourist!  not bad... about a year ago we opened the new autostrada/ highway and so from Siracusa you can reach Catania in about 40 minutes, more or less Per me Catania resta la città dei miei anni universitari....qui il cortile interno del Palazzo Università(XV sec) a due passi da Piazza Duomo...oggi zona pedonale... To me catania is the city of my universitary studies..here the beautiful courtyard of the Palazzo Università (XV century)..very close to Piazza Duomo, today a pedestrian area closed to traffic! il mio tour è iniziato dalla zona di piazza stesicoro dove affiorano i resti di un anfiteatro in pietra lavica, tra i più grandi in Sicilia,...poi per via M...