Grana Barocco Art Hotel & Spa

Corso Umberto I 133, Modica, Sicily, 97015, Italy | 4 star hotel

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Nuccio is an excellent tour guide

A travel blog entry by donnartw2012

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... lunch). Chiesa di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro has the first Caravaggio painting I've seen outside of a museum, and it's beautiful. Unfortunately, no photos allowed. We visit the Duomo which is built on top of the ancient Temple of Minerva. Finally we see Apollo's Temple, built in 600 BC, which seems oddly out of place in the city center.
I'll miss my Italian family! Hope to see you again soon.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

A travel blog entry by donnartw2012

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... saw his travel log, he knew that Columbus had reached a new land and gave it his own name.
Nuccio also told me a great story about the origin of "ciao." In medieval Venice in order to avoid a fight with a stranger, you would say, "Io sonno tu sciavo", I am your slave. But in Venetian dialect, the hard c sound of sciavo is pronounce shiavo. This inevitably was shortened to just ciao.
It was nice to be part of the family before embarking on the next phase of ...

Part 1 - Rome to Sicily

A travel blog entry by everardt

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115

... now continues from Catania, past Siracusa, to Rosolini almost at the south-eastern tip of Sicily, so we were there in only a little over an hour from Messina. An even greater shock was that they are building a 4-lane highway between Siracusa and Floridia, where Dad and I come from. I have driven the old narrow country road hundreds of times as it winds it's way up from the coast through the citrus groves to Floridia 12kms away, and I'm not ...

Police car ride

A travel blog entry by jake13101

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I had my 1st ride in a police car, lol mom will be proud ! nothing bad my BMW broke down and I had to give them my gps and they took me back to the hotel . I thought it was because I passed them at 170' but they were kind to help me. What is the chance a Renault would have caught me. ...

Noto

A travel blog entry by cricketttt

... from. We only saw a stork and heron, but it was all along the coast marshes and I bet it is beautiful in the spring time. From there we were going to go to Avola, but decided to skip it and head straight to Ortigia, and we are glad we did as the streets, although beautiful and scenic were one way and crazy. Took us an hour of circling through the portal to find our destination. Once again I hoofed it to find our nights lodging, and it was easily ...

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This 4 star hotel, located on Corso Umberto I 133, Modica, is near Duomo di San Giorgio, Caltagirone, Giardini Iblei, and Portale di San Giorgio.
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