As planned yesterday, we drove back down South this Morning to check out the two baroque towns of Ragusa and Scicli:
Ragusa is interesting, because when it was rebuilt after the 1694 earthquake, some of the people chose to rebuild along the same streets, and some to create a new town. The old town of Ragusa Ibla is by far the most pleasant, but the ensemble spreading over hills on the edge of a ravine is amazing, as shown in this panorama:
The old town is a maze of small streets and alleys on a hillside, with a beautiful baroque cathedral high above the piazza, behind gates, on top of steps. It was unfortunately closed from 12:30 to 4:30, as most everything but restaurants in Sicily, and we could see the interior:
I looms over a sloping quiet square with cafés and grand Palazzos:
There are many other small churches, and big palazzos, and I photographed more Architectural details for my 3D projects.
The infra red shots run through HDR came out quite nice:
We the headed for Scicli, near the Southern Coast, another of the Baroque towns. The cimetery on the other edge of the ravine was interesting, and absolutely huge, with a lot of high above ground family monuments. Appearances matter a lot around here, and your dead need to be housed better than yourself as much as possible...
The town itself was up the hill,and din't seem all that exciting, and we decided to save Rachel's feet and head back to Syracuse following the shore.
That turned out rather more difficult than we though, as if the road seems to follow the water on the map, it is most of the time at least 500 meters inland, with views of plastic sheeting greenhouses and farm equipment rather than blue seas and beaches. The water was deep turquoise and pretty the few times we got a glimpse of it. This by no means the Ciote d'Azur, and one can notice the same thing going across the border to Italy after Vintimillia.
So we turned back inland towards the expressway, through a landscape of olive groves and yellow wild flower, sometimes mixing together in wonderful vistas:
Rachel just started cooking sausage, onions, apples and endives for our dinner at home, and it smells wonderful. Except for the first few days, we have cooked as much as possible, and the food had been better than anything the restaurants we tried had to offer.
We are packing up our bags tonight, and leaving in the morning for one last day of vacation in beautiful Taormina.
Ragusa is interesting, because when it was rebuilt after the 1694 earthquake, some of the people chose to rebuild along the same streets, and some to create a new town. The old town of Ragusa Ibla is by far the most pleasant, but the ensemble spreading over hills on the edge of a ravine is amazing, as shown in this panorama:
The old town is a maze of small streets and alleys on a hillside, with a beautiful baroque cathedral high above the piazza, behind gates, on top of steps. It was unfortunately closed from 12:30 to 4:30, as most everything but restaurants in Sicily, and we could see the interior:
I looms over a sloping quiet square with cafés and grand Palazzos:
There are many other small churches, and big palazzos, and I photographed more Architectural details for my 3D projects.
The infra red shots run through HDR came out quite nice:
We the headed for Scicli, near the Southern Coast, another of the Baroque towns. The cimetery on the other edge of the ravine was interesting, and absolutely huge, with a lot of high above ground family monuments. Appearances matter a lot around here, and your dead need to be housed better than yourself as much as possible...
The town itself was up the hill,and din't seem all that exciting, and we decided to save Rachel's feet and head back to Syracuse following the shore.
That turned out rather more difficult than we though, as if the road seems to follow the water on the map, it is most of the time at least 500 meters inland, with views of plastic sheeting greenhouses and farm equipment rather than blue seas and beaches. The water was deep turquoise and pretty the few times we got a glimpse of it. This by no means the Ciote d'Azur, and one can notice the same thing going across the border to Italy after Vintimillia.
So we turned back inland towards the expressway, through a landscape of olive groves and yellow wild flower, sometimes mixing together in wonderful vistas:
Rachel just started cooking sausage, onions, apples and endives for our dinner at home, and it smells wonderful. Except for the first few days, we have cooked as much as possible, and the food had been better than anything the restaurants we tried had to offer.
We are packing up our bags tonight, and leaving in the morning for one last day of vacation in beautiful Taormina.
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