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Valley of the Dolls
... a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to have a map to get an overall picture when the GPS either fails or there is an obstacle in the planned route. Road closures are such an obstacle. At one point in today’s ride the GPS indicated that we needed to make a right turn. Whilst I admit that I did not study up on Italian road signs, I’m pretty sure that the sign we encountered was a road-closed sign. Not knowing what optional routes might be ...
The temples of Agrigento
... site, the Tempio della Concordia, with all its columns and much of its interior intact, though adulterated by its later conversion to a Christian basilica. It's a stunning piece of history, not bleached white like the Parthenon but as impressive for its completeness.
There is a free concert here tonight so we return after touring the less complete ruins ...
Valley of Temples
... to the hotel briefly and then headed out for dinner. It was around 8:30 p.m. but the restaurants were empty. After wandering around for a while we decided on a nice outdoor place that had 2-3 tables occupied and by 9:30 all the tables were full. In fact by 11 p.m. the place was still full and lots of the tables had young children. The southern habit of eating late is still alive and well.
Agrigento is a coastal town ...
The Valley of the Temples
... at the hotel again (Jane was very happy to hear even the locals were struggling to cope with the extreme heat!) The city of Agrigento was first founded in 582BC, and was one of the most important Greek cities in the Mediterranean...this Greek influence seems to be relatively strong throughout southern Sicily. Whilst our stay in Agrigento was only brief, it seemed there was some evidence of more Greek origins (pharmacies, for example, are signed 'pharmacia' in ...
Agrigento
To get to Agrigento from Siracusa we had to go back to Catania. So we boarded the train to Catania and was supposed to catch another one to Agrigento, but because of the awesome public transport in Sicily, the first train was delayed so we missed the second. After going to the info centre and getting some confusing info from someone that only spoke ok english, we changed our train ticket to a bus ticket and waited to board the bus. That sounds ok, but the bus we boarded was only a ...
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