Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Taormina 2019
The Necropolis is situatated just outside the town of Taormina.
In a wooded area along the Via Lurgi Pirandello, is a stretch of ancient wall with rows of recesses symmetrically arranged one above the other. These are not Roman ruins, as we might too hastily imagine, but the remains of an old Byzantine cemetery, probably used [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Science & Nature, Taormina 2019
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2019
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Taormina 2019
16 Comments CherryPie on Nov 26th 2019
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Taormina 2019
The construction of the amphitheater starts probably by the Greeks around the third century. BC, at the time of Hiero II.
To allow the construction was necessary to remove manually from the mountain over 100,000 cubic meters of rock.
The plant was later renovated and expanded by the Romans, who inserted columns, statues and ingenious covers.
The Greek theatre of Taormina, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2019
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Probably, already in the advanced 1st century AD, this side of the forum seems to have already been occupied by the bath-building, which was enlarged in the 2nd century AD, superimposing and obliterating the Hellenistic public building. Excavations carried out in 1964-1966, and later in 1988 found a row of three heated rooms (calidaria) dated [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 14th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Taormina 2019
I got up early to finish my packing then I sat on the French balcony for one last time, enjoying the view of Etna in the early morning sunshine. It was heavenly; birds, bees and the occasional butterfly flew around me. A damsel fly landed and sunbathed on a nearby post.
As soon as Mr C [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2019
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Our alarm was set for 6.30 to enable us to arrive for breakfast at 7.30 (as the doors opened). As we arrived we were surprised to find that the room was quickly filling up with a large number of Americans. We couldn’t help but overhear their loud conversations; they were joining a trip to Etna. [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2019
