Here are my top May 8-9 weekend picks for the best manmade temple, castle, cobblestone street, city street and outdoor theater in northwestern Sicily.
Built in 430 BC, this Doric temple in Segesta wins columns up.
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This is a normal, and tolerated, garbage scene on a street in southern Italy.
There will soon be a blog devoted solely to garbage on the Italian seaside south of Naples.
Why? Because there are blossoming stacks of garbage everywhere. Even when trash collectors aren’t on strike. Even when Read more
This statue is dedicated to a distant Sicilian relative of mine.
MedTrekking today from Balestrate, a town on Sicily’s Gulf of Castellammare named after a very distant relative of mine, towards the glorious looking Cape of San Vito.
That’s the cape as seen from Balestrate this morning after I Read more
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 Read more
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