Sicily in ruins

19 Apr 2012, Posted by admin in Agrigento, Notes, Sicilia, Siracusa, Trapani, 5 Comments Tagged ,

Sicily in ruins


Syracuse, Agrigento, Selinunte and Segesta offers some of the most impressive sites of Magna Grecia in Sicily.

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In Noto walls talk

30 Jan 2012, Posted by admin in Notes, Sicilia, Siracusa, 7 Comments Tagged , ,

In Noto walls talk


Visiting Noto is like entering the stage set of a play from the early 18th century. Even if you are only a holiday extra passing through.

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Mocking baroque stone faces

19 Jan 2010, Posted by admin in Notes, Sicilia, Siracusa, 0 Comments Tagged ,

Mocking baroque stone faces


Palazzolo Acreide is one of Unesco’s World Heritage Sites in Val di Noto, but you don’t stumble into sights – they have to be discovered somewhere behind the beautifully embellished, weather worn facades.

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An inaccessible beauty without proper footwear

09 Dec 2009, Posted by admin in Notes, Sicilia, Siracusa, 0 Comments Tagged

An inaccessible beauty without proper footwear


Cava Grande del Cassibile is a series of waterfalls and untouched green lakes in a white limestone canyon below the blue summer sky. A real natural beauty in southeastern Sicily.

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The comfort of losing one’s way

18 Nov 2009, Posted by admin in 1Notes, Liguria, Notes, Sicilia, Siracusa, 1 Comments Tagged , ,

The comfort of losing one’s way


All over Italy you can copy Dickens and “lose your way … twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties.”

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