The ferry rounds the rocky outcrop and suddenly the water turns that impossible Aegean blue, so clear that the white sand below is visible twenty metres down. Koufonisia sprawls low against the horizon, a cluster of white cubes and blue domes surrounded by sea so luminous it seems to glow from within. On Pori beach, […]
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 […]
Categories: Cities, Islands, Italy, Nature, Sicily, Sights, Sights
