![]() messina: port with madonnina statue |
![]() messina: port, with a few men fishing and relaxing |
![]() messina: santa maria annunziata dei catalani (XII-XIII century) and one of the many palms |
![]() messina: chiesa dei catalani (combination of byzantine, romanesque, arab and norman styles) with moped |
![]() messina: duomo with colourfully painted wooden ceiling |
![]() messina: fontana di orione, built in 1547 to celebrate the construction of an aqueduct |
![]() messina: duomo tower with moving gold-coloured items |
![]() messina: duomo tower with astronomical clock on the right-hand side, and entrance of the basilica (built in 1150 and rebuilt after the 1908 earthquake) |
![]() messina: rabbit in the ruins of the monte de pieta |
![]() messina: sacrario cristo re, in neo-baroque style |
![]() messina: view from sacrario cristo re on the port of messina and calabria - with only very little rain in messina in the evening |
![]() messina: view on santuario di montalto from the other hillside |
![]() messina: chiesa s maria degli alemanni (built by germans in XIII century, refuge of cervantes), after the evening concert by emy sparado and grazia maria spuria |
![]() messina: one of the roads to sacrario christo re, and, like in most streets, with (still) green trees |
![]() messina: madonnina of the port, in close-up |
![]() messina: fontana di nettuno, with scylla and charibdis at his feet |
![]() messina: porta grazia (XVII century) with recent graffiti |
![]() messina: another church |
![]() catania: piazza stesicoro from the hotel room |
![]() catania: the elephant |
![]() catania: duomo |
![]() catania: piazza duomo |
![]() catania: fresh foods market - fishmonger at the parting of the market |
![]() catania: fresh foods market - fishmonger with his Mantis-Shrimp |
![]() catania: fresh foods market - twitching Mantis-Shrimp (canocchie, and you can make these kind of dishes with them [with thanks to Enrico]) |
![]() catania: fresh foods market - fishmonger at the parting of the market |
![]() catania: fresh foods market - proud butcher with his calf cut in two |
![]() catania: castello ursino with the city museum inside |
![]() catania: anfiteatro romano (the dark part in the front) and chiesa san biagio |
![]() etna: covered with snow, inbetween the clouds, and from the plane |