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mosaics

Pensione Trachina room

October 14, 2019

Travels in Sicily – Palermo to Scopello

October 11 Yesterday we spent church hopping, to see the mosaics created by Venetian and Egyptian artists for the Arab-Norman churches in the 12th century. The Venetians created these beautiful  Byzantine-style religious mosaics, while the Egyptians decorated floors, columns, and walls with elaborate geometric patterns, in the Islamic tradition of not rendering anything found in […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: driving in Palermo, La Capilla Palatina, Monreale, mosaics, Palermo, Pensione Tranchina, San Vito do Capo, Scopello, Zingaro Preserve

Evening soccer players, Palermo

October 9, 2019

Travels in Sicily-Cefalù & Palermo

October 5-Cefalù The beautiful Tyrrhenian Sea, aquamarine, jouncing and frothing, far out onto the horizon, with small columns of clouds that form over warms waters. Crowds on the beach, multitudes in the streets, we are squeezing our way to our B&B. Some tour groups come toward us, clogging the way, “like sheep” says Larry, and […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: B&B Lirma, Cefalù, Fiumara del’Arte, La Martorana, mosaics, Palermo, Teatro Massimo, Tyrrhenian Sea, Winter’s Journey

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