Today was a cool day. This morning we went up to Taormina to look at the Greco-Roman Theatre which was awesome! It had an amazing view of the city and coastline and Mount Etna. Then we went thru a flower garden that had a WWI monument in it. Also I was treated to my first granite, which is the Sicilian form of icy. It was sooo good! I had a fragola one - which means strawberry. Then I packed up and got loaded on the bus to head to Agrigento! It was founded by Greeks back in the 6th century BC. We got checked into our hotel here and then went on our tour of the Valley of the Temples. There are 21 temples there to Greek gods but only 10 have been found so far. It was very very cool, but then again my dad read Greek mythology to me when I was little - so what do you expect? LOL! There is an art/sculpture exhibit in the valley of the temples from May to October of this year I think, by Igor something. They're all about broken bodies, etc. and some have to do with Greek mythology - like the guy who made bird wings to escape from this tower and then his son didn't listen and flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he died... moral of that story = obey your parents or die. 0:)
Tomorrow we go to the archeological museum here in Agrigento and will be able to connect the dots more with what we saw and learned about today. Then around lunch time we'll go swimming at some really beautiful place near here. Then we pack up and head out to Palermo, a different spot on the island of Sicily. We'll check into our hotel there and then have supper. I'll be back at the villa on Wednesday, I believe.
You're right. I would love to view these excavated ruins. You may recall that the 6th century BC is the time of Socrates.
ReplyDeletep.s., And again you're right, father knows best. (And the son who flew too high was Icarus.)