Tag: “Sicily”

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  1. a view down the centuries

    From the balcony of my room in the Hotel Isabella on Taormina's Corso Umberto, where you can buy all the Versace and Dolce & Gabanna that you need to bring home, I could have looked right, to where the sun had risen over the Strait of Messina. Instead I looked left -- first to see where the morning light fell, and then across a few centuries of apartments and churches to the Greco-Roman theater, a reminder of just how new a newcomer to Sicily I was.

  2. A fishmarket lamb butcher

    In the way so typical of markets, the Catania, Sicily, fish market has grown to include meat, fruit and vegetables as well as seafood. This lamb butcher's stall is located in the shadow of one of the buildings that line the streets the market takes over every morning.

  3. Two eels, one octopus, not enough business

    Cold, rainy weather makes for a slow sales day at the Catania fish market -- though with fewer tourists in the way.

  4. swordfish

    Some of the more established shops in the Catania fish market are built right into the lava-rock arches of the city's architecture.

  5. sea urchin seller

    Every sea urchin at the Catania fish market gets individual attention -- especially if you want to eat it right away.

  6. business as usual

    Doing business the way it's always been done -- and communication the way it's done today.

  7. Orecchio di Dionisio

    This cave in Syracuse, Sicily, is known as "the Ear of Dyonisius"; a term coined by the artist Caravaggio, based on King Dyonisius I of Syracuse, who is reported to have used it's astounding acoustics to listen in to the whispers of the captives he held prisoner in this artificial cavern. Today tourists flock to the staggering s-shaped cave, ofen spontaniously bursting into song to experience its booming echoes.

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