From Siracusa, we drove West to Ragusa Ibla. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 and rebuilt. Most of the architecture seems to be from around that period. It is quite beautiful and definitely worth a visit. Ragusa has an upper city and a larger lower city, called Ragusa Ibla. The latter is gotten […]
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Syracuse
The next day we drove South and stopped in Siracusa, also known as Syracuse. It was a major Greek city-state and the home of the famous mathematician and engineer Archimedes (of Eureka in the bathtub fame). It has a huge Greek amphitheater and great architecture. Here are a couple of pictures. Unfortunately, we were there […]
Nicolosi and Messina
We spent the first two nights at a B&B in Nicolosi called Il Sotto de Volcano. It got a great rating in TripAdvisor. Our rating will downgrade it a little. A very enthusiastic and energetic owner, who came to fetch us when we couldn’t find the place and couldn’t have been more helpful. It was […]
Mount Etna
We flew in to Sicily and were greeted by a fantastic view of Mount Etna from the plane, still spouting copious amounts of smoke from its most recent eruption within the previous week. The following morning, we drove from our B&B in Nicolosi up the side of Mount Etna and took a cable car up […]