Tag: Santa Flavia
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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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Collecting Water
The ruins of the ancient city of Solunto high up on the slope of Mount Catalfano show a sophisticated use of gravity for water collection, as illustrated here by what is left of a large public cistern that sits at the end of the main street. Founded by the Phoenicians circa 700 BC and then…
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Take the Long Way Around
I took “the long way around” today when I arrived in Sicily to see this view at Mongerbino. I have been to Sicily I think more than a dozen times (what’s the point of counting, anyway?). As I took in today’s gorgeous weather, moments with my family and friends, tastes and smells of the local…
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Sea and Earth
The Tyrrhenian Sea photographed from Porticello with San Calogero Mountain in the distance.
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Little Port
Cove at Porticello with Capo Zafferano in the background. (Photo credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)
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Light the Way
Capo Zafferano Lighthouse. (Photo Credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)
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View of Sant’Elia
View of Sant’Elia (Fraction of Santa Flavia) from Solunto on Mount Catalfano.