You lie flat in a small rowboat as the oarsman guides you through a tiny opening in the cliff face. Then the world turns blue. The Blue Grotto glows with an ethereal sapphire light, as if the sea itself is lit from beneath. Sunlight enters through an underwater cavity and reflects through the water to […]
Categories: Caves, Islands, Italy, Nature, Nature, Sea Sites
The Mediterranean crashes against golden sand as the Rocca looms overhead, a massive limestone promontory that has watched over this fishing town for millennia. Cefalù is the kind of place where life moves at the pace of the tide. Narrow alleyways wind past pastel coloured houses, laundry fluttering from wrought iron balconies. The Cathedral, a […]
Tindari – the Greek-Roman archaeological site | Sicily, Italy Updated: April 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Tindari is a small coastal town situated on a rocky hill (Capo Tindari) and contains the remnants of an ancient Greek site Tyndaris from 396 BC. Thanks to its strategic location, the city could easily control and […]
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Island of Elba – pearl of the Tuscan Archipelago Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Elba is one of the most beautiful islands of Italy with crystal clear water. It is the third largest island of Italy – after Sicily and Sardinia. Its capital city is Portoferraio which is the largest city […]
The Scala di Santa Maria del Monte in Caltagirone is not merely a staircase. It is a work of art, a feat of engineering, and a symbol of the city’s identity all rolled into one. This monumental staircase, consisting of 142 steps, climbs the hillside from the Piazza del Municipio to the Church of Santa […]
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Segesta is one of Sicily’s most hauntingly beautiful ancient sites, a perfectly preserved 5th-century BC Doric temple standing in solitary splendour on a remote hillside in the Sicilian interior, its 36 columns silhouetted against the sky with no modern development in sight. Built by the Elymians, one of Sicily’s three indigenous peoples, this unfinished temple […]
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The Valley of the Temples at Agrigento is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, the richest and best-preserved group of ancient Greek temples outside Greece, standing in golden sandstone splendour on a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean in southern Sicily. A UNESCO World heritage site and the crown jewel of Magna Graecia, […]
Categories: Islands, Italy, Nature, Nature Reserves, Sicily, Sights
The vaporetto cuts across the Venetian lagoon, carrying you away from the crowds of St Marks Square and out toward a cluster of islands that each tell a different story. Murano glows with the heat of furnaces where glassblowers have shaped molten silica for over seven centuries. Burano explodes in colour, each house painted a […]
The Alcantara Gorge (Gole dell’Alcantara) is one of Sicily’s most dramatic natural sights, a deep, narrow canyon carved by the Alcantara River through spectacular hexagonal basalt columns formed by ancient lava flows from Mount Etna, creating a landscape of black volcanic rock walls that rise 50 metres above the rushing turquoise water. Located near Taormina […]