Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy in 4K (UHD) HDR

YouTube ^ | May 22, 2019 | Ttvtraveller

[SunkenCiv]

BTW, in case anyone asks, I kinda wanna go really badly.

http://www.visitsicily.info/en/sicily-to-your-home/

http://www.visitsicily.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Castelmola11.jpg

http://www.visitsicily.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/home3spiaggia1.jpg

[blueunicorn6]

Well, having eaten Norwegian and Italian Food, I can say, without reservation, that Italian food is way better.

[dp0622]

I know a place that serves great Viking food

A line from a comedy :-)

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[dp0622]

I’m guessing here that Cicely wasn’t always called Sicily :-).
I know Sicily is beautiful and I have seen many places there and I know as far back as my great-grandfather. Other than that I know very little about the country

[SunkenCiv]

:^) I love the movie The Big Red One, there’s a scene where the soldier with family roots in Sicily says, “this is Siciily, it isn’t Italy” or something similar. :^)

Inside the abandoned Italian town where houses can sell for one euro
Poggioreale was abandoned in 1968 after an earthquake, but community leaders have plans to make the town into one of Europe’s most scenic vacation destinations.
Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2019/07/05/abandoned-italian-town-vacation-poggioreale-orig-cl.cnn

http://www.google.com/search?q=Poggioreale

[SunkenCiv]

Ruins of Poggioreale - Belice valley, Trapani - Sicily, Italy | Drone aerial view

[MAAG]

To bad most of the place is toilet bowl now.

[dp0622]

I heard this mentioned by family there a loooong time ago.

I barely remember as I was a kid (born in 1968) and I certainly did not remember the name of the town.

I imagine this is the town they were talking about. Unless there’s more than one abandoned town in Sicily

Wow.

You put some great stuff up tonight :)

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like the whole town would cost about €200 to buy and maybe about five quick reno's flipped would finance the whole project.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Sure, but the couple of weeks of summer in Norway must be great! ;^)

[dp0622]

lol

I’m thinking of buying the town :)

[SunkenCiv]

I like those steps.

http://blog.impossibleliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/abandoned_poggioreale_square.jpg

http://blog.impossibleliving.com/2011/02/poggioreale-trapani-italy/
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https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187886-d553336-Reviews-Poggioreale-Sicily.html
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/82/bf/fc/filename-img-9193-jpg.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0d/c3/6c/c9/20160820-182209-largejpg.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/11/ac/ea/84/ruderi-di-poggioreale.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/12/fe/00/38/un-posto-fermo-a-50-anni.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/14/0e/cb/37/poggioreale.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/15/3b/8a/23/the-main-square-panorama.jpg

[Fresh Wind]

I didn’t know it was called a coffee table book

Yes, a book that's big enough to be used as a coffee table.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I’ve been to Sicily twice. Once for a week. It’s like being on another planet.

[cicero2k]

I spent a week in Sicily in 2019 to reconnect with the hilltop village my grandfather left in 1905. A most beautiful and interesting place, but over populated at the time. The intact Roman Villa has 35,000,000 mosaic tiles, a full color tour de-force. Highly recommend before Sicily is discovered by the masses.

[moovova]

My wife took a picture of me hugging one of the front columns...2nd or 3rd from the left. Anyone seeing that picture would assume I was illustrating the massive girth of the column because my arms barely embraced a sixth of the diameter. In reality, that wasn't the reason I wanted the picture at all. I'd seen this temple so many times in history and travel books, daydreamed about going there, that it was almost like meeting an old friend after a long time absence. I was so darn glad to finally be there...just had to hug it.

Also, while I've never taking one of this group's annual trips, I've been a dues-paying member of Arba Sicula since the '80s.

https://www.arbasicula.org/

[moovova]

Another small treat...Ear of Dionysius...

[moovova]

Castelmola is s great place to visit, if nothing else than for the drive up to it. A rollercoaster ride has nothing on that circuitous route up to the top, out of Taormina. The castle above the town is interesting, but small. Visiting the bar/restaurant across the piazza, and getting a table on the rooftop for an espresso is a photographer's dream. The view is heavenly...

[moovova]

Speaking of castles...Erice is good place to visit for a very fine, very real castle...almost fairytale.