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San Gandolfo Festival
The 7th Wednesday after Easter and the 3rd week end in September
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The Most Holy Crucifix
Starts May 1st
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La Sagra delle Nocciole (The Hazelnut Festival)
Always in August usually after the 15th, a moveable date

Lo Sfoglio
Late August

Santa Lucia
December 13

 
 
 
 

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www.go-sicily.it

www.visitingsicily.it

www.timesofsicily.com


 


Splendour and Faded Streets in Sicily's South East

Posted by Suzanne Turrisi on 14 May 2018

 

 

A few snapshots below capture some of the excess of Sicilian Baroque splendour and also the faded beauty of everyday streetscapes in three charming towns in Sicily's South East.

I spent time, last May, in this golden corner of Sicily – three nights in Modica (which I have written about in a previous blog) a few hours in the centre of Scicli (where they happened to be filming Montalbano that very day) and an afternoon of slow walking in Ragusa Ibla where I discovered the lovely Villino Arezzo (not Baroque but Art Nouveau) and the elegant public gardens, Giardino Ibleo. 

 

Modica

Duomo San Giorgio

 

Modica from the steps of San Giorgio

 

Chiesa San Pietro

 

Statues on the steps of Chiesa San Pietro

 

San Giorgio

 

Stepped Backstreet

 

Looking to San Giorgio 

 

Arch over Via Clemente Grimaldi

 

Streetscape

 

Over rooftops to a noble building

 

Backstreet

 

Near the centre

 

Backstreet bouganvillea

 

 

Scicli

Palazzo Beneventano

 

Church on Via Francesco Mormino

 

Detail Palazzo Beneventano

 

Moorish head Palazzo Beneventano

 

Ragusa Ibla

Palazzo della Cancelleria

 

Chiesa Santa Maria dell'Itria

 

Villino Arezzo

 

Giardino Ibleo

 

Giardino Ibleo 

 

 

Salve,

Suzanne


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