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all photographs (c) 2017 Wim
van Binsbergen
BORGO DE ULIVI NEAR PALAZZOLA
Here (but where? our directions were dramatically imprecise so we could
not rely on the gps) we arrived long after dark under
torrential rains which had turned the narrow and curving roads into mountain streams;
only after five precious days on Sicily did we see the sun again. This great
disappointment (in the confusion we drove into a tree and smashed a tail light)
was somewhat compensated by visits to the lovely little town of
THE TOWN OF
PALAZZOLO’S
NOTO
The only experience at rain-flooded Noto
worth recording was a Gypsy funeral. The souvenir shops are full of curious
pottery masks claimed to represent Saracenes (who
held the Isle of Sicily for several centuries at the height of the Middle Ages, establishing a reign of blissful peace,
prosperity and the pursuit of science). The common Ancient trisceles symbol of three bent
human legs converging in one point at 120 degrees from each other,
turns out to be now exploited as a symbol of
MARATEA
When the Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, large parts of the
heavily-populated Neapolis /
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