Sunday Morning In Ortygia, The Glam Italia Tour

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything"</i></span><br />~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Italian Journey (1786-1788)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not quite sure what Goethe was up to here.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Sicily and Italy were not unified until 1861.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">And each stands alone, completely magnificent.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But I love the quote.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Sicily is my obsession. Since the very first time I ever set foot on this magical island I have not gone one day without thinking about it. It is always on my mind.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Despite the incredibly long travel day to get here from Phoenix, it was the logical place to start the Glam Italia Tour. (as in start our beach time before our waistlines have a chance to register that we are eating pasta...) </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sunday morning in Ortygia</span></i></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ortygia is a little island connected to the city of Siracusa.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The history here is astounding.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjP01iNHZxbiGb85AjS6lPGSerlGy2BCvLxx9cUyjVr-CmuRp12WZRdxVjTW6QOgMMuFM31tQMygMiPJajwj62rUoXhrkHQj-sxcC89kig9SFDRF6T6Hier9cjMNt1S2cpeUSwNuruCY/s1600/DSC02406+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjP01iNHZxbiGb85AjS6lPGSerlGy2BCvLxx9cUyjVr-CmuRp12WZRdxVjTW6QOgMMuFM31tQMygMiPJajwj62rUoXhrkHQj-sxcC89kig9SFDRF6T6Hier9cjMNt1S2cpeUSwNuruCY/s1600/DSC02406+-+Copy.JPG" title="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" /></a></div><br />The remains of Apollo's temple, built in 732 BC are surrounded by apartments built over the centuries. Some incredibly old, some rebuilt after WWII. Can you imagine looking out your bedroom window at this??<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaPaocsb8odKVKcaiGzFCxk0JLT45WwoLa-OjXYHjm7lj07a1m9bHEWgTHTiZBQQp4YAoJZS4arALqx22E98xhJDC9QzXL9dkqtlwsBn6kDoz6w5B_SGVDktA6urEMC-xAzFTIIQr9is/s1600/DSC02397.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaPaocsb8odKVKcaiGzFCxk0JLT45WwoLa-OjXYHjm7lj07a1m9bHEWgTHTiZBQQp4YAoJZS4arALqx22E98xhJDC9QzXL9dkqtlwsBn6kDoz6w5B_SGVDktA6urEMC-xAzFTIIQr9is/s1600/DSC02397.JPG" title="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3m89rlQzkZLIk_oNugpyhpXVGRs9_Hki4lXKwmu66CuSVY9exlMhUoajRgunEGs5UP1ZRNadaCGtFbW2hxuilX1rKeYwnZ3p4UftAvjmFtKLErc-zqruJF7ypreOlD11FGtVQ7cF0Eio/s1600/DSC02400+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3m89rlQzkZLIk_oNugpyhpXVGRs9_Hki4lXKwmu66CuSVY9exlMhUoajRgunEGs5UP1ZRNadaCGtFbW2hxuilX1rKeYwnZ3p4UftAvjmFtKLErc-zqruJF7ypreOlD11FGtVQ7cF0Eio/s1600/DSC02400+-+Copy.JPG" title="Apollo's-Temple-Ortygia-Sicily" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Waiting outside church on Ortygia, Sicily. I just loved her pants. I want a pair!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-agRCYdL1AbLFqaz3thqoEOuwELbcfRiUkSnyZD2p0xacJiwZhFprNuufwTh-MsWAqYlSOz0drWCDX0JklOSETOUFX2xb8x7FomJYVdBl81SWnrIXFuiZNBXURAivqZOvX5w8Ya3ypsA/s1600/DSC02404+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Church-Attire-Ortygia-Sicily" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-agRCYdL1AbLFqaz3thqoEOuwELbcfRiUkSnyZD2p0xacJiwZhFprNuufwTh-MsWAqYlSOz0drWCDX0JklOSETOUFX2xb8x7FomJYVdBl81SWnrIXFuiZNBXURAivqZOvX5w8Ya3ypsA/s1600/DSC02404+-+Copy.JPG" title="Church-Attire-Ortygia-Sicily" /></a></div><br />Walking through the streets of Ortygia<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2l9nlWze1ueg52D83hO4-4oQneKH1_l3xFv-R6ejYg0r-egkYyWt_XyDLCKHhgYHLh_9iFVED6dLQWQn1L_smHIs_tDLeBAD0GB17V9hzNRuwezVtbzpf_A4yVXcFgJ8yNLfOF-FrWY/s1600/DSC02442+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The original Siculi built a temple to the deities here, the in the 5th century BC The Greeks built a temple around it, and since then in has been added to over the centuries. The current facade is Baroque, but as you walk through you see thousands of years of history<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sRfE0_YMVMYJiaK97WJq05k86_HSG8IZVp4NLJQmrJvHXa3YLve3dD1Fo6gsJgidj19cmtzMNCrxIqOUNisfnLIvLaChpcVyk0OSuaslWS72xCM7Tvd1PxR2u_S4BXmkW8kyh9ZjI1Q/s1600/DSC02458+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Boy-On-Duomo-Steps-Duomo-Ortygia" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sRfE0_YMVMYJiaK97WJq05k86_HSG8IZVp4NLJQmrJvHXa3YLve3dD1Fo6gsJgidj19cmtzMNCrxIqOUNisfnLIvLaChpcVyk0OSuaslWS72xCM7Tvd1PxR2u_S4BXmkW8kyh9ZjI1Q/s1600/DSC02458+-+Copy.JPG" title="Boy-On-Duomo-Steps-Duomo-Ortygia" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>These columns were built in the 5th century BC. Running your fingers over their crenellations you feel 2500 years of history beneath your skin.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKMuM58aNZAXND2zdpsFgRYRG8_GNk_esWSwc7n1xhL8eSvKINhwHJUP5Hy0DuZqdfBnrqlZQZbov3ci2Sd7xeGxY6kAu4wNS_hrBIB2P89A6twxzxMDxSKoWuIKH2QFLmfg7_6ipTm4/s1600/DSC02462.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="5th-Century-BC-Columns-Inside-Duomo-Ortygia" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKMuM58aNZAXND2zdpsFgRYRG8_GNk_esWSwc7n1xhL8eSvKINhwHJUP5Hy0DuZqdfBnrqlZQZbov3ci2Sd7xeGxY6kAu4wNS_hrBIB2P89A6twxzxMDxSKoWuIKH2QFLmfg7_6ipTm4/s1600/DSC02462.JPG" title="5th-Century-BC-Columns-Inside-Duomo-Ortygia" /></a></div><br /></div>

Sunday Morning In Ortygia, The Glam Italia Tour

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