Trip to
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all photographs (c) 2017 Wim
van Binsbergen
VOLTERRA AND ITS MUSEUM
GREG WYATT’s EMPEDOCLES SCULPTURES
In 2012, Wim van Binsbergen published a book Before the Presocratics, in which the philosopher
Empedocles (from Agrigentum on
PIACENZA WHOSE MUSEUM HOUSES A FAMOUS BRONZE MODEL OF A SHEEP’S LIVER, WHICH THE ETRUSCANS USED IN DIVINATION (divination being one of Wim’s topics of specialisation)
SIRACUSA
25 KMS WEST OF SIRACUSA WE SPENT TWO WEEKS AT AN OTHERWISE DESERTED YET GROSSLY OVERPRICED AND (APART FROM THE THREE DOGS) INHOSPITABLE AGRITURISMO (mphooto page) ore on this on the other
PALINURO, A SMALL BEACH RESORT AT THE GOLFO DI POLICASTRO FROM 150 KMS SOUTH OF NAPOLI, LIVED UP TO ALL ITS PROMISES INCLUDING ANOTHER ‘BLUE CAVE’; THE COASTAL KARST PHENOMENA GREATLY REMINDED US OF SOUTHERN THAILAND
AT THE GOLFO DI POLICASTRO, WE SPENT TWO UNFORGETTABLE WEEKS AT VILLAMMARE
From the Golfo di Policastro we took the train
back north to
We spend a week at an agriturismo
under the smoke of Volterra (which lies perched on a
mountain in the heart of
SIENNA
SAN GIMIGNANO
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