Everyone in the Sicilian seaside village of Isola delle Femmine (or Women’s Island) west of Palermo seems to have an explanation about the tower on the uninhabited island just offshore. A female police officer in the small town — which is twinned
I’m occasionally a bit frustrated when, after hours of arduous climbing/trekking on the Mediterranean Sea, I encounter an obstacle that forces me to humbly backtrek, patiently retrace my steps, cautiously attempt to find a new route around a difficult part of coastline and pray to numerous gods and goddesses in Greek
It was worth walking 6,457 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea just to discover the glorious “floating” Charleston restaurant and bathing complex in Mondello, Sicily. Created in the late 1920s, a recent renovation has made the Charleston look as spiffy as new. I was so excited to stumble onto it about fifteen kilometers out
Yes, there are more than cats, pigeons and mummified humans in Palermo. Just take a look at the sculpted human figures on the columns in the cloisters at the Church of Santa Maria La Nuova in Monreale; the mosaic above the entrance to the Palatine Chapel at the Palace of the Norman
Yes, I spent two hours in Palermo today admiring the Norman Palace with its dazzling Palatine Chapel and Royal Apartments that are now the chamber of the Sicilian Parliament. But what excited me, and most other visitors, almost as much as the exquisite mosaics and the frescoes depicting six of the Twelve
How many shots do you think it took me to catch this pigeon alighting at the fountain (the circular bowl is crested with animals) in the cloisters of the Norman Cathedral in Monreale outside Palermo? Six! Right, six takes. It was much easier taking photographs of the 12th century mosaics inside the Church
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