Sicily 2022 part II - I just had to visit Corleone

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December 25th 2022

Published: May 11th 2023

One ancient tomb, several ancient temples, one ancient fortress and one not so ancient ghost town This blog entry covers most of the places I visited in the second half of this trip in Sicily. When I look through the pictures I see that there are a lot of historical (ancient) places there. But there is some other stuff in there too so hopefully there is something for people who are not history b... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Villa Palagonia

The villa wasn't very spectacular. It was a bit run down and quite barren. No furniture for example.

Fountain in Corleone

Fountain in a public park in Corleone

Due Rocche waterfall

Due Rocche waterfall in Corleone

Borgo Schiro

Sign indicating that I have arrived in Borgo Schiro

Borgo Schiro

The dictator Mussolini believed that the right way to develop the countryside was to build small planned villages. Borgo Schiro is one of those

The church

The planned villages were complete with school, pharmacy and church.

Saloon or bar

One suggestion from Google Translate is "saloon" or "bar", like my guess was.

Grocery store

This was planned to house a grocery store I think

An alley in Cefalù

This is the ruins of a castle on the top of the mountain towering over Cefalù

View from the castle

View from the castle on the top of the mountain towering over Cefalù

View over Cefalù

Temple of Diana

This is the remains of the 2,500 year old Temple of Diana

Two questions: How and why?

Something a bit incomprehensive at the end: A stone house on top of a steep narrow pinnacle. How did they build it I wonder? But even more I wonder why?

14th May 2023

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Sicily
Sicily seems filled with sights. The ancient temples look amazing, particularly the fog-covered ones! In my recent car rentals, I understand also the freedom they bring, but also the relief in returning them!

14th May 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Filled with sites
Sicily is indeed filled with interesting sites. I could on this trip only see about half of the places I wanted to go to. One reason was that about one third of the island was too far from Palermo to travel to with reasonable effort. /Ake

16th June 2023

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

All around Sicily
We enjoyed our time in Sicily... the ancient ruins are magnificent. For us, we thought the towns were dirtier than on mainland Italy and we found the people overly assertive. Fortunately, it didn't ruin our trip.

21st June 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I guess I am used to dirt...
I didn't notice that the towns were dirty. But then I almost never do unless a place is really filthy. I guess I have been to so many dirty places that I have gotten so used to it that I no longer notice. /Ake

22nd June 2023

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Sicily
Ake you are making Sicily very attractive! Love your photos of the sights. I wonder if this building on the pinnacle was part of a defensive structure of some sort? That's probably the only way I can answer the 'why' part of your question :)

4th July 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

A fortress of some kind?
It would make sense if the building is a fortress of some kind. It is a good theory, better than anything I've been able to come up with. /Ake

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