Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Gabi and Theresa's Big Adventure: Lost Civilizations of Sicily


Sicily is like an old car that has passed through numerous owners....each of whom left her share of scratches and dents. The Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans, and Spanish are amongn the notables that paraded onto and off of the island. Heaven knows how many others have been there before and between those times.

Villa Romana del Casale sports the best concentration of Roman mosaics in a single place.
Agrigento looks to be closer to Athens than it does to Rome.
At least eight states in the USA have a town named Syracuse. The original, in Sicily, gets much less snow than Syracuse, New York. The history goes back a bit farther too.

Of course, modern cities have grown over the bones of these old ones. For example, the following are from the cities of Cefalu and Catania, which Gabi and Theresa visited as they hopped across the island.

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