Category: Swimming/Boating
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Sicilian Holiday
Buona festa! It’s Ferragosto! This week marks “ferie” throughout Italy. Italians and Sicilians close up shop in the cities and flock to the sea or mountains to meet-up with friends and family to enjoy vacation. For Sicilians who live outside of Sicily, it’s a time to return to Sicily for Ferragosto-related feasts in honor of…
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Bronzata, White, and Blue
My view while at Scala dei Turchi, Agrigento, yesterday. It was crowded with sun worshipers, but fascinating nonetheless! (*Bronzata means, suntanned.)
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Sicily’s White Cliffs
La Scala dei Turchi in Realmonte on the southern coast of Sicily are white cliffs that pour into the sea. The cliffs are made of a type of marl or marlstone, a hard-mud material that is a combination of calcium carbonate and lime mixed with other types of clay and silt. Like the Cliffs of…
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Silver Scylla
The hill-top town of Aidone hosts a world-class archaeological museum containing treasures unearthed at Morgantina, an ancient Greek town down the road a stretch. Morgantina was founded in 850 BC, and over the next 400-600 years the settlement was destroyed and rebuilt until it was finally abandoned in 211 BC. Throughout the centuries, the citizens…
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Enchanting Sicily, Day 1
I am thrilled because our September 2015 Experience Sicily tour starts here at Scopello! Not only is it the site of this ancient tuna fishery and breathtaking “faraglioni,” or rock stacks, but it’s also the site of a charming village with artsy shops and local tratorrie in which you can duck in and out of…
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Scopello’s Rock Stacks
These rock stacks are at Lo Scopello, an antique tonnara or “fishing farm” in Sicily that is now open to the public for swimming and sun bathing. It is beautiful. I’m on my way there today. I’ll share it (or something close by) with you in real-time tomorrow.
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Let’s Go Swimming… Here
These white limestone and clay cliffs are called la Scala dei Turchi–the Stairs of the Turks. They are near Agrigento, and in June, during Experience Sicily’s Soulful and Sunny Sicily experiential tour, I’ll be bringing a small group to swim here after we explore the UNESCO Heritage Site Valley of the Temples. Perhaps we’ll find…