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...

The Navel of Sicily

Enna -  is located almost in the middle of the island on a plateau, and divides the southern and northern parts of Sicily. The city is nicknamed Belvedere della Sicilia. (a beautiful view) It is also called the Navel of Sicily, which has views in all directions of the island! For lunch in Enna w...

Villa Romana del Casale

One of the goals of staying in Piazza Armerina is an extraordinary facility: “Villa Romana del Casale - a luxurious summer villa from the late Roman Empire, residential and representative consisting of about 50 rooms, baths, gyms, offices and bedrooms arranged around a large inner courtyard. Its o...

In Piazza Armerina

Ninety kilometers from the airport there is Piazza Armerina. The apartment on the 5th floor of a skyscraper surprised us with its size and equipment. It turned out that it was our hosts' grandmother's apartment and nothing (almost) was changed after her death. Grandma was a painter and hence beau...

Over a part of Europe

Apparently everyone is flying to Sicily today! This time we enter the board from the airport ground. The queue was impressive but went forwad smoothly. Mandatory masks! Beautiful green and yellow fields of Germany still in full sunshine. There were clouds over the Croatian islands, but their bea...