An Island To Honor All Women?

Women's Island: An honor or a prison?

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 with Pittsburg, CA, and has a Piazza Pittsburg — tells me that it symbolizes and honors all women. A fisherman watching me drink my cappuccino claims the tower was once a jail for women. The young woman serving me at the bar says she hopes the crumbling structure stands for the liberation of women.

The best bet?

There apparently was a women’s only prison on the small island in the 1500s.

Learn more about the place @

http://www.isoladellefemmine.org/

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Posted on May 4, 2010 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking

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Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."

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