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Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> Sicily. Part 4. Syracuse >>> Sicily. Part 5. Messina >>> Sicily. Part 6. Acireale >>> Sicily.
victort54
· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> Sicily. Part 4. Syracuse >>> Sicily. Part 5. Messina >>> Sicily. Part 6. Acireale >>> Sicily.
victort54
· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> Sicily. Part 4. Syracuse >>> Sicily. Part 5. Messina >>> Sicily. Part 6. Acireale >>> We visited Noto already in September, when we were relaxing at the VOI Arenella Resort 4 * hotel.
victort54
· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> Sicily. Part 4. Syracuse >>> Sicily. Part 5. Messina >>> On the last day of our May voyage, we went to the town of Acireale.
victort54
· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> Sicily. Part 4. Syracuse >>> We planned to visit Messina on Monday to see Caravaggio paintings in the museum, but we read on the Internet that the museum is closed on Mondays, so we spent Monday at the hotel...
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· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> Sicily. Part 3. Taormina >>> We went to Syracuse (Italian name Syracuse) for the first time in May from Giardini Naxos, on Sunday by bus.
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· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> Sicily. Part 2. Catania >>> On Saturday there was a market day in Giardini Naxos, not far from our hotel, then we still walked around the city before lunch.
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· 4 years ago
Sicily. Part 1. Giardini Naxos >>> The next day, in the morning, we went to Catania. Bus company "ETNA Trasportie Interbus". The ticket was bought in a pavilion at the bus stop, if you take it back and forth, it is more profitable, for one ticket it cost about 7 euros.
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· 4 years ago
Looking at the frost outside the window, I decided to remember Sicily and write about some of the cities on the east coast, washed by the Ionian Sea, which we looked at. We opened Sicily for travel and recreation relatively recently, which we now regret.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> On the last day in Rome, there was no clear plan for traveling around the city, the bus to the airport was at 16.00, before that we decided to walk around nearby places, bribe food home, and then - how it goes.
victort54
· 4 years ago
On the last day in Rome, there was no clear plan for traveling around the city, the bus to the airport was at 16-00, before that we decided to walk around nearby places, bribe food home, and then - how it goes.
victort54
· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> After a short rest at the hotel, we set off towards the Quirinal Hill. From the Esquiline obelisk near Santa Maria Maggiore, the long, narrow Via Agostina Depretis begins, after crossing Via Nazionale, then passing into the Street of the Four Fountains.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> We still had a day and a half left in Rome before our departure. On this day, we first decided, as Khobotov from the Pokrovsky Gates said, “Watch the frescoes of the Novodevichy Convent”, that is, the basilica of the Lateran Hill, especially since it is very close to ...
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> On this day, there was no clear plan for traveling around the city, we decided to walk around familiar places, and then - how it goes. The day turned out to be sunny, we walk along the covered galleries of the palaces encircling Vittorio Emanuel Square.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> So, we decided to look at the paintings of Caravaggio. From Piazza Navona, through a small alley, we exit to Corso Rinascimente, this is also one of the streets laid out during the years of Mussolini.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> We continued our Sunday walk around the city. Somehow it is still impossible to write about Rome briefly. After the bridge of the Holy Angel, from the embankment begins the Roman district, named after the bridge - Ponte (Ponte), it is cut through by a wide road Corso...
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> The next day in Rome fell on the last Sunday of the month. We remembered that on this day you can visit the Vatican Museums for free and in the morning we went there by metro.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> The next day, early in the morning, at 5.30, we moved from Lecce to Rome on the Frecciargento (Silver Arrow) train. In Italy, there is a network of high-speed railways, there are also trains "Frecciarossa" and "Frecciabianca" ("Red Arrow" and "White Arrow"), high-sp...
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> Our last day in Puglia turned out to be hot and we decided to combine travel and relaxation. Therefore, we went to Gallipoli, which is located on the reverse side of the "Italian heel", already on the coast of the Ionian Sea.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> Something yesterday I missed Ostuni, where we visited with a tour a year ago. From Gallipoli to Ostuni not far, 20 minutes by train. But the station is far from the city, about three kilometers, it’s good that we then had a bus tour.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> From Lecce to Brindisi is not far away, only 25 minutes by train. Brindisi is the oldest city in Puglia and the capital of the province of the same name.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> On this day we had a transfer from Bari to the "heel of the Italian boot", in Lecce, where we booked a room for three nights. I'll say right away that Lecce is one of my favorite cities.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> It would be right to talk about two famous cities that we visited a year earlier - Alberobello and Matera. The cities are unique, unlike any other city in Italy.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> After lunch we went for a walk around Bari. I must say that there are quite a few tourists from Russia and the republics of the former USSR in the city.
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· 4 years ago
To be continued. Start here >>> On the third day we decided to visit the cities north of Bari. G. Morton wrote in his book: "Nowhere else in Europe will you find so many Norman cathedrals standing next to each other.
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· 4 years ago