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Tag Archives: Palermo
Italy, My Grand Tour
Upon my return from Naples I thought I might update my map of places that I have visited in Italy.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray
In the middle class Piazza Marina district there was an interesting park with large ficus trees with aerial roots hanging from the branches and reaching out to the ground below to strike down into the earth and add to the tree’s fortress like appearance.
Posted in Cathedrals, Europe, Food, History, Hotels, Italy, Literature, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Godfather, Life, Palermo, Palermo Cathedral, postaday, Sicily, Teatro Massimo, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Urban
Car Parking – Sicilian Style
The traffic was noisy and impatient with the usual medley of car horns, which is a feature of Italian driving or course. If the normal rules of driving do not apply in Palermo then the normal rules associated with parking definitely are completely irrelevant. At the Piazza San Domenico on the Via Roma there was a small and hopelessly inadequate car park surrounding a fountain that was full of impatient drivers looking for non-existing parking spaces, blowing their horns, waving their arms and shouting at each other in that classic Italian driving style. There was double and even triple parking and almost every car had minor accident damage as a result. I certainly wouldn’t like to park my car there.
Tagged Life, Palermo, Palermo Street Market, Photography, postaday, Sicily, Travel, Via Roma
Sicily, Segesta and Castellammare del Golfo
Segesta was the political center of the Elymians who were indigenous people from the west of Sicily who built the city in an alliance with Ionian Greeks. It flourished for over five hundred years until gradually it was abandoned as the inhabitants moved away from the mountains and down to the coastal areas for trading purposes.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Natural Environment, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Castellammare del Golfo, Italy, Palermo, Segesta, Sicily, Sicily Car Hire, Thyrrenian Sea
Car Hire in Sicily, a rash decision in a moment of madness!
Woke early in a sweat! OMG! I am going to drive a car in Sicily! I must be insane; whatever possessed me to dream up an idea like that!
After breakfast we walked for a last time down the Via Roma and noticed that it was quieter today, perhaps because last nights revellers were still in bed nursing hangovers. The streets were already impressively clean so the local council had obviously been working hard throughout the night. We arrived at the Piazza Giulio Cesare and missed the bus to the airport by just ten minutes. That gave me further thirty minutes worrying time while we waited for the next one in the railway station bar (nowhere else was open).
Sicily, Palermo, The Cathedral and a Carnival
Beyond this poor area of the city was the busy port where there were urgent preparations being finalised before tonight’s big parade. Today was the culmination of a six-day festival in honour of the City’s patron saint, Saint Rosalia, who, according to legend, saved the City from a terrible plague in the seventeenth century.
Posted in Cathedrals, Europe, History, Hotels, Italy, World Heritage
Tagged Godfather, Life, Palermo, Palermo Cathedral, Sicily, Teatro Massimo, Travel
