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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

 
 
 
 

Associated Links

www.go-sicily.it

www.visitingsicily.it

www.timesofsicily.com


 


Ortigia under the Sicilian Summer Sun

Posted by Suzanne Turrisi on 25 Jul 2018

 

 

The colours of Ortigia, sun soaked and sea washed fade under the intensity of the Sicilian summer.

Sun soaked houses by the sea and baroque palazzi

Ortigia’s meandering Lungomare di Levante Elio Vittorini faces east to the Ionian Sea and drenched by the morning sun the pastel facades- pink, pale blue and sand have a sunbathed clarity.

Sicilian green doors, open against walls of pink to the streets in behind Ortigia's baroque duomo, once a Greek temple dedicated to Athena. The paved stones of Piazza del Duomo, the tall ancient Greek columns of the duomo and the exuberant baroque palazzi bordering this glorious piazza pale under the hot sun. 

And the odd worn, pale facade looms above the promenade of the seafront of the Porta Marina di Ortigia.

Shade and a few Ortigian images

Tourists walk the shady sides of the streets and sit beneath open café umbrellas to escape the dry heat of a Sicilian July.

Scroll through the dozen or so images of Ortigia, glorious under the Sicilian sun.

 

 

Salve

Suzanne


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