Two provocateurs at an exhibition in Catania

It was a nice surprise: A museum with an exhibition of works by Andy Warhol and Banksy. If you are interested, I’d refer you to Wikipedia, because it is not my role to promote these artists. For me, the juxtaposition of these two provocateurs is extremely accurate. Despite the difference in genera...

Siracuse and Ortigia

Siracuse. The Italians say Siracusa but we the Poles say Syrakusas The  Italians say Italia but we say Włochy. How patriotic it is! This plural comes from the Latin name Siracusæ .. The next leg of the trip. A nightmare night, because Santa Lucia requires loud celebration until dawn! Our apartmen...

Each country has its legends ...

We arrived in Syracuse in the late afternoon, with the intention of going to bed early after a busy day (11 thousand steps!!). It is one after midnight and it is impossible to sleep, because in the square there is a party that starts some celebrations of the weekend. Terrible noise. So I sit down ...

On the way from Agrigento to Syracuse

Wikipedia did not leave much space to the city called SCICLI: (according to my knowledge of Italian, it is pronounced: schickli. "Scicli - town and commune in the Sicily region, in the province of Ragusa. According to data for 2004, the commune had a population of 25,560 people, 186.6 people / km²....

Monuments of Agrigento

Since breakfast was not included in the price of the "apartment", we went to the city to eat Italian sweets, because nobody here eats anything specific in the morning. What we were served exceeded our expectations. So: café latte, orange juice and sweet rolls filled with chocolate, pistachio cream ...

An evening in old Agrigento

We got to the old part of Agrigento, where it took a bit of a sweat to find a place to park and then get to the rented premises with the suitcase. We are staying at a place called B&B Athena Comfort. B&B would seem to mean a room and breakfast. And the word comfort also obliges? None of these thin...

The Scales of the Turks

From the antiquity there was only a few kilometers to get to the sea, where the rich modernity has built beautiful holiday houses on a high cliff, and at the bottom there is a beautiful looooong sandy beach. We are going to watch the "staircase" formed in the limestone cliff descending towards the ...

Vally of the Temples

We're going to Agrigento. From the center of the island to the southwest. By the sea. We will not going to sunbathe or swim, but we will visit the Valley of the Temples. “The Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Templi) is an archaeological and landscape park in Agrigento with the remains of the anci...