tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64733274275711589812024-02-19T06:31:50.658+01:00Sicilia, Napoli Roma: two months in Italy... questa volta, DUE mesi in ItaliaDennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-61473056801139933112016-06-26T11:54:00.001+02:002016-06-26T11:54:33.141+02:00Bus 116The bus journey in the next below blog entry is not now available.<br />
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Alas.Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-87160847093069838852011-04-09T07:05:00.005+02:002018-02-08T09:47:38.800+01:00A last item<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnog7U_lySxL5_E_JLqVu2Q2ClsD41kBj3B7n-Ut-2p7GLTD5oe_l8QF-6YzofxzIu-YFdNB-hbGPV5BRmCax6J8pJGmTFkkhXNJ29drhgm7acnzZDhUiuUkxq4TwtoN-wVFv6_EPfkOkx/s1600/IMG_3367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnog7U_lySxL5_E_JLqVu2Q2ClsD41kBj3B7n-Ut-2p7GLTD5oe_l8QF-6YzofxzIu-YFdNB-hbGPV5BRmCax6J8pJGmTFkkhXNJ29drhgm7acnzZDhUiuUkxq4TwtoN-wVFv6_EPfkOkx/s400/IMG_3367.JPG" width="400" /></a>As a farewell to Rome, here is a little movie shot from behind the head of the driver of the 116 bus, a small electric bus that finds its way through the centre of Rome. The buildings between which the bus drives are built mainly from the 1400s to the 1800s. Writing this now in Seattle, on the way home, I am somehow lost for words to describe what seems from here another world, scarcely perceptible through the film, though for us it carries great memories.... <i>my writing here is dull, we are in mourning..</i>.<br />
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Short, square, with wheels on the corner, quick acceleration and low speed, you will see its qualities shine in the movie.<br />
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Alas that bus route has been suspended. But here's what you can do on foot!<br />
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I had enormous difficulty back then, trying on foot to work out the route, but more recently with the google map and street view, I have worked out that that movie runs (I think) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Eustachio" target="_blank">St Eustachio</a> (where Michelle Obama was taken for gelato) down to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_sopra_Minerva" target="_blank">S.M. sopra Minerva</a> with the wonderful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_and_Obelisk" target="_blank">elephant obelisk</a>, then Via del <a href="http://www.060608.it/en/cultura-e-svago/beni-culturali/beni-archeologici/pie-di-marmo.html" target="_blank">Pie di Marmo</a>, Via del <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_College" target="_blank">Collegio Romano</a> (also <a href="http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/romano.html" target="_blank">see this</a>) round through the wonderful <a href="http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/87731.html" target="_blank">Piazza Sant'Ignazio</a>, hastening through the <a href="http://romeartlover.it/Vasi24.html" target="_blank">Piazza di Pietra</a> without any courteous nod towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Hadrian" target="_blank">Hadrian's Temple</a> then coming to a halt in via dei <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santi_Bartolomeo_ed_Alessandro_dei_Bergamaschi" target="_blank">Bergamaschi</a> at an entrance to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Colonna" target="_blank">Piazza Colonna</a> (also <a href="http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi22.htm">see this</a>). Though this bus route no longer runs, this remains a wonderful walk.... or rather, is indicative of the quality of walks through any number of streets in the centre of Rome.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-84644170064872433642011-04-05T21:29:00.004+02:002018-02-13T21:22:12.488+01:00art around aboundsThere seems an instinct to race from museum to museum in Rome, but there is breathtaking beauty and art everywhere, which we are pleased to slow down and see. You will also see in these photos our affection for the city, the romance of the city. You will understand why Helen in particular does not want to leave... (alas bloggerisation robs photos of some quality)<br />
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(I note as we prepare for travel to Rome again in 2018 that the imprint of Rome on us is undiminished)<br />
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<i>Here is a glorious ornament on a bridge</i></div>
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<i>and here is another glorious ornament, same bridge</i></div>
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<i>and here is a view of the bank below, </i></div>
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<i>— the river racing after rains</i></div>
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<i>of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Vallicella">Chiesa Nuova</a> (New Church), </i></div>
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<i>The church was new when it replaced the old church in 1575</i></div>
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<i>Here is part of the very short walk from the Chiesa Nuova to home</i></div>
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<i>Here is an anonymous wall such as one passes often</i></div>
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<i>Not far from home, </i><br />
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<i>Here was the wall we faced </i></div>
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<i>Here is the notice of a restaurant, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerveteri">Cerveteri</a>, </i><br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-63924019386618961252011-03-29T11:45:00.007+02:002011-05-16T08:08:30.440+02:00updating<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have not maintained this blog well. The purpose of life has been away from blogging. Rome has been seductive, as has been an end to travelling and weeks of staying in one place. The combination of the two seductions is very powerful indeed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is much to do, much to experience, in trips in the city, as with previously posted visit to EUR. Also the discovery that from 200 metres away, we can catch the 116, a small electric powered bus which travels through the centre of Rome in a giddying whirl through very narrow streets, to emerge in the Villa Borghese - and return home via the Spanish Steps and, if we don't get off at our door, be carried on to the Janiculine Hill. Having the monthly bus pass means we tend often enough to get off Bus A and get on the next arriving Bus X, to go places ordinary people go in their ordinary lives in this remarkable place.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have also made more extensive day trips. Friday 2.5 hours on the Pescara train through the mountains of central Italy towards the east coast, to get off at Goriano Sicoli. Helen had said "we must take a train" and in researching I looked at the stops trains took. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goriano_Sicoli">Goriano Sicoli</a> is a strange place for an express train to stop; a perfect place for us to visit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the station we set out down the hill a little more than a kilometre to the town. M C Escher had visited the town and been inspired; his first lithograph, made there, shows how the reality of the town (see Helen's photo following) may have contributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher#Works">Escher's work</a>.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You will see that he etched as he saw, hence printed in reverse. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The technical people also note that he made it very hard to print </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by working all the way to the edge of the stone. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Helen's photo from a position slightly to the right...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The way of small places: Going down the hill into town, we fell into conversation with a woman called Wanda [Varhnduh], whose mother as a child came from Croatia with her family, as had <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-45-eric-and-wanda-newby-1537766.html">Wanda Newby, wife of Eric Newby</a>, come with her family from Slovenia, in the great transmigration program imposed by Mussolini.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then we fell into conversation with Roberto, who proceeded to put us into his car and give us a tour of the edge of town before taking us to meet Donato [Don], an Australian returned in the 1980s from Adelaide, born same year, same school as Robert, who has established a pizzeria - BandB in Goriano... and who asks we send all his friends there... which without hesitation we do!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And where next? — see below these pics from Anguillara.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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It was also to be dog-photo-day, beginning with this extraordinary dog-man hand-holding relationship in Piazza Barberini. Bernini's Triton fountain in the background. They held hands long enough for me to get out the camera and take the shot from crowded bus...<br />
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The beginnings of the site, part of it later developed further for the 1960s, is the core of the present centre of EUR, a satellite city southwest of the centre of Rome. It is distinguished by extraordinary architecture of the art-nouveau/Fascist era, but also by some remarkable modern architecture from the post-war period. Two photos of major statuary at EUR are in the preceding blog entry featuring Helen and naked men, here are some more photos taken in EUR Friday.<br />
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The inscription at the top of this focal building expresses ideals which were tragically tainted by the violence of the Fascist regime and violence imposed on its opponents. The inscription reads:<br />
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This is the scale of this extraordinary building</div>
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</div>Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-41813059812778979012011-03-16T21:23:00.004+01:002011-12-21T06:23:41.400+01:00and a tragic anniversary...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSl_rSnCul-__MD5-KMLmCBDVa0ZughzCnub1sD116CiYCFBmmAb_l-1fzAFHuiKvMb5CQsRArr6Hp1yZ59ZRdVbtdVnTiMfkbxd2-yMPaMFKvx43T9Q16jdLyyLXppNhgG3WaKdk0-ucG/s1600/File%253AAldo+Moro+headshot.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSl_rSnCul-__MD5-KMLmCBDVa0ZughzCnub1sD116CiYCFBmmAb_l-1fzAFHuiKvMb5CQsRArr6Hp1yZ59ZRdVbtdVnTiMfkbxd2-yMPaMFKvx43T9Q16jdLyyLXppNhgG3WaKdk0-ucG/s400/File%253AAldo+Moro+headshot.jpeg" width="322" /></a></div>This is the 33rd anniversary of the kidnapping of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro">Aldo Moro</a>, the Italian Prime Minister, who was on the point of achieving a major shift towards potential political stability in Italy, bringing in the communist party to a government with his own Christian Democratic Party. His subsequent death fractured Italian politics, at the end of a violent decade.<br />
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There continues to be speculation about who, apart from or in encouragement of the Red Brigades, may have been involved. The film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_divo_(film)">Il Divo</a> explores the right wing of the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) through the life of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Andreotti">Giulio Andreotti</a>, many times prime minister and still at the top when the CDP disintegrated under the weight of corruption and disaffection, in the early 1990s, when Andreotti acted (one matter of lasting consequence) in ways that enables Silvio Berlusconi to secure dominance of the media in Italy, a situation which today means only one newspaper group and the public radio-tv network RAI carry reports on the legal cases facing Berlusconi.<br />
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The Italian Communist Party also dissolved in the wake of the collapse of Eastern European communism, at about the same time as the CDP. The search for sane political balance continues. The party principally heir to the PCI is the Democratic Party (PD) and other left wing parties. The old balance of the 1960s had been that the PCI had nationally 30% of the vote, the Christian Democrats 40%... the Christian Democrats, unlike the DLP in Australia, being a party whose members had a complete range of political views from right to left, though the Vatican has always tugged towards the right.<br />
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The PCI previously governed a number of Italy's regions, especially in the centre of the country (Florence, Bologna). This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents_of_Regions_of_Italy">page</a> shows which provinces are controlled by the PD. Polling this month showed, in opinion of how to secure succession to Berlusconi, that no more than 12% wanted a coalition of the centre or the centre-right, over 20% favoured a centre left coalition led by the PD. Near 60% either were undecided or not wishing to vote. The problem at the heart is that such a high proportion of political process is ego driven and reluctant to come to terms with practical things needing to be done to sustain government. Berlusconi stays there because he has $10 billion personal wealth and the money keeps pouring in; because he favours the kind of regionalism desired by parts of the north and wealthier groups generally, that want to keep money where it is; because there has never been a government able to bring more than 40% of business out of the black economy; and because he leads the kind of louche lifestyle many Italians dream of having.... while the other half is heavily unionised and has through political process secured many public assets we dream of, including good public transport. Italy alone of large western European countries remains nuclear power free.<br />
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to be noted also that there is a great force for balance in the political system, a restraint on Berlusconi in President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Napolitano">Giorgio Napolitano</a>, a member of the PCI till its dissolution, demonstrating in a speech this evening at the 150th anniversary ceremony a wonderfully clear capacity to argue for inclusion and universal community values, withut notes, at age 85.Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-51969661976770997842011-03-15T08:47:00.001+01:002011-03-15T08:54:30.978+01:00The Ides of MarchToday being the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March">Ides of March</a>...<br />
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...we will proceed to the bus stop outside the Senate, 100 metres from the site of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Pompey">Pompey's theatre</a> (ironically sort of under the present parliament's lower house which is desperately seeking new leadership) where Caesar was murdered on this day, take the bus to the station and the train to Tivoli.<br />
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Here, another historical note, is a photo panorama from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janiculum">Janiculine Hill</a>, where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Republic_(19th_century)">Roman Republic of 1849</a> held out for months against French forces invited by the Pope to reclaim the city. Yesterday someone was holding a press conference at Garibaldi's feet to claim some political mileage.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Glorious statue of Anita Garibaldi (dark weather yesterday)</div><br />
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The price of this mid-morning delight: for two Illy coffees, minimal water, wonderful coffee, Helen's small croissant with chocolate [cornettino con cioccolato], Dennis's 'girella' - and served with complimentary mineral water.<br />
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Coffee 80c x2<br />
Eats: 60 and 70<br />
Total; Euros 2.90, say $Aust 4.40.<br />
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Down below also photo of our street, coming from that direction, last night. There is a wildly busy (Friday night especially) section of the street coming from Piazza Navona, then 50 metres before our place, quiet.<br />
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Then photos of our entrance. Andrea Marchi, our bright young landlord, has made two delightful little apartments from two old workshops*** inside the courtyard of this 'palazzo'. (A palazzo is not a grand thing, just a big building. This one maybe 600 years old.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*** I later realised we were in the <i>stalle</i> – the stables – of the <a href="http://www.romasegreta.it/parione/via-del-governo-vecchio.html" target="_blank">old offices of the government of Rome, before it moved out, in 1755,</a> just 180 years after they built the Chiesa Nuova - the new church, around the corner, main big door just along the street a bit. And behind <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio_dei_Filippini" target="_blank">Borromini's Oratorio</a>, it's a crowded place. </span></blockquote>
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- a photo of our own hang-out clothes line above the street; it was wet much of the week so we did not get to use it. Mixed with it appears to be someone's coaxial (satellite TV) cable.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-44498081246479910772011-03-11T07:28:00.001+01:002016-08-13T04:28:20.320+02:00A film from last week - catching upOh, we have photos from Monreale, outside Palermo, two weeks ago, not yet posted, etc... but here, catching up, is a little film from Friday last week, which shows a rather tame section of the bus ride to Positano, when the bus is arriving in Positano. Well, the bus is able to drop us at the top of some hundreds of steps and sloping road, on the edge of Positano. Mercifully we only had day packs on our backs.<br />
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At the end of our movie, YouTube will offer you other films of the Amalfi coast...<br />
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<br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XIBI6DZoGjU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-36120692602062406832011-03-09T20:16:00.004+01:002011-12-21T06:24:53.782+01:00in RomeHere since Sunday, now Wednesday, we simply feel at home, for various positive reasons to be set out sometime.<br />
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Enjoying walking and riding public transport (month of March bus/metro pass Euros 30 = $45) and photography. I am embarking on a substantial project of photos of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_della_Repubblica">Fountain of the Naiads</a>, see these examples of effects using 1/2000 second exposure, to capture water drops, 1pm late winter. Learning lots about the <a href="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/s3-pro.shtml">S3</a> on the way.<br />
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To scoot around Naples with free transport and visit excavations and museums we had used a three day <a href="http://www.artecard.it/">ArteCard</a>. An essential for the visitor to Naples.<br />
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Friday, that card having expired, we set out for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi_Coast">Amalfi coast</a> using a <a href="http://www.unicocampania.it/">Unico Campania</a> all day 'Fascia 5' card, the <i>Fascia Cinque,</i> referring to the distance covered by the ticket. This allowed us to take the <a href="http://www.vesuviana.it/web/en/homepage">Circumvesuviana</a> train from Naples to Sorrento, then <a href="http://www.sitabus.it/sitabus/campania/orarioCAMPANIA/QUADROXV.pdf">SITA</a> buses to Positano, Amalfi (lunch) and Salerno, before coming home on the <a href="http://trenitalia.it/">Trenitalia</a> train from Salerno. At the end of a wearying day we payed about E6.50 for two booking fees to travel swiftly non-stop and comfortably on that leg on the Palermo-Rome Intercity Train.<br />
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The use of public transport meant that we doubled or trebled the value of travel compared with using some tour bus. We were among ordinary travellers, albeit that the buses we took between Sorrento and Positano and Amalfi was mainly inhabited by tourists - a new world of budget travellers, though, in which a young Chinese couple could leap from the bus at an isolated part of the journey to climb stairs down the cliff to the Green Grotto. And where two young women from Taiwan would rely on us a couple of times for advice on which bus to take.<br />
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The last bus section, from Amalfi to Salerno, was different, astounding, the coast more precipitate, the traffic on the narrow road quite heavy, the spaces between heavy vehicles passing each other in some places in millimeters, or with gentle brushings of soft edge bits... and a full load of locals, standing room taken, crowded.<br />
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A white haired woman in her seventies at least, gets on in one village with a massive bunch of flowers, then gets off soon after at an isolated bend, vanishing up a steep stairway in vegetation.<br />
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Above and below, the way the land has been worked for thousands of years, with lemon orchards banked steeply on terraces; caves and workshops; houses and sheds and pathways. Look at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi">history of Amalfi</a> and wonder at what generations ago what types of people would come to work the hardest land imaginable in the margins of this tiny port rival to Genoa and Venice, proud enough to have refused the keys of the city to Roger II, Norman king of Sicily, 900 years ago, sacked for its temerity.<br />
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This last section of the coast (Amalfi to Salerno, alas no photos here) is less travelled, has more integrity and is less a site for the beautiful people than Amalfi-Positano where prices have gone mad, building on the steep coast more improbable, and though with some of its old charm, the cultural value of Positano is descended into the depths of, of... <i>Who</i> magazine.<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-38808011682122224232011-03-05T11:06:00.005+01:002016-08-13T04:22:17.974+02:00National Archaeological Museum, NaplesI found it necessary to organise <a href="http://aplaceof.info/11/italy2011/napolimuseo.html">photos and comments in a web page, found here</a>.<br />
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I am conscious, in making my critique of acquisition and presentation in this museum on that web page, that I myself have acquired and critiqued. May the gods frown on me...<br />
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One can see (in Freudian anxiety terms, though even enlarged the actual absence of vital member from sculpture is not clear) why this is a less familiar image/relationship than Leda and the Swan.</div>
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-87132425768633804742011-03-05T10:42:00.000+01:002016-06-25T04:40:40.556+02:00HerculaneumWe travelled about a third of the distance from Naples to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum" target="_blank">Herculaneum</a> as we would have travelled to get to Pompeii, on the same local rail system (<a href="http://www.sitabus.it/circumvesuviana-orari-e-tariffe/" target="_blank">Circumvesuviana</a>). Herculaneum (Ercolano today) is a smaller excavation of a more exclusive seaside retreat than Pompeii. Extraordinary to be able to look down into, then walk down into, streets of antiquity inside a modern town.<br />
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Alarming to be allowed to walk into rooms, over tiled floors 2000 years old, with rain puddles in them and shoes of every description scraping over them.<br />
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It was something of a puzzle, watching bricklayers at work restoring or recreating walls, to know which parts of fascinating wall building styles should be attributed to the original town builders.<br />
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We later visited the National Archaeological Museum where we saw spectacular mosaics from Herculaneum and Pompeii, very valuable to have been first to Herculaneum — having done which we felt no need to go to Pompeii. Here are photos from Herculaneum:<br />
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We were advised that we could take photos of the structure but not of the works. The structure is itself a great work of art. We fudged only slightly. Here is the result in a little film. You may need to turn down the sound on this, still learning how to get sound levels right.. this soundtrack recorded while we lunched in the cafe of the museum. Contemporary cutlery grunge lyrical?<br />
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Reflecting later, we were conscious that there seemed many things missing from the museum, in what might be 'contemporary' beginning not least with the graffiti art with which Naples abounds. We commented on this to someone without connection with the museum; the reply was that this museum project had been pushed and funded by a group of politicians who particularly wanted to favour artists of their own circle. Those politicians were now out of power and this museum thus had had its funds cut. To deal with this cut in funding the museum now opens only in the mornings. Hence the problem also for staff whose hours and shifts have been halved.<br />
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I went out early, the morning after our Saturday night arrival, to fetch breakfast items. Approaching the major road from narrow via Duomo I heard a sudden gobbet of shouting and the sound of hands hitting car rather than car hitting car. Several others walking my way hastened to have a look. When I got to the corner, there, eight lanes away, were young men with a fancy black car in altercation with young women (Berlusconesche, we could say), dressed in tight pink pants. By the time I got to cross the road a few metres up, the Carabinieri had arrived and were interviewing the men, the women having vanished. Good marks for prompt police intervention. There is a considerable police presence wherever we have been, but it is much less aggressive and confrontational and hard rule driven than it seems in Australia. Results based, rather than pigeon chest puffing power position assertion.<br />
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Again yesterday, this sight we have seen before, in Soriano last year, of the parking policeperson standing by the triple parked car, blowing whistle and waiting for the owner to arrive and move car, rather than issue ticket, though ticket pad in hand. A nice scold, not a ticket and sustained road blockage. (We did not have the camera with us either in Siracusa week before last, when we saw a police team and tow truck pick up an illegally parked car, back it (quite some time) down the narrow street and drop it, with some difficult manoeuvring, into a road-centre parking space. Shades of my experience in Paris December 1969, when the charming young policeman at the police station, after I had reported my car stolen, came back to me with some gents in overalls to say "Monsieur, may I introduce you to the gentlemen who stole your car, and may we ask you in future not to park in front of the doctor's garage." "Oh, sorry, where do I go to collect it?" "It is about 100 metres down the street on the other side.") When will we Anglo-Sassoni learn that the more we huff the more people will try to blow our houses down.<br />
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I went out again later with Helen and with the iPhone - movie below. (I am using the iPhone rather than the Fuji S3 DSLR first because it is unobtrusive and producing such interesting results and second, alas, because the S3 is producing a spot on every photo (either lens) and I have not yet solved the problem.)<br />
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To get to the local market, we first have to descend from our fifth of five floors apartment to the street.<br />
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A few metres up the street we dropped into the<a href="http://www.museomadre.it/"> Museo Madre Contemporary Art Museum</a> and got some good advice on buying an <a href="http://www.artecard.it/">'ArteCard'</a> with discounts for places and free transport in the region PLUS information and conversation on the industrial relations agitation by museum staff on very familiar grounds: casual employement, low pay, short shifts. And then to the cheerful crowds of the market, to stock up food (except we forgot butter, so that will be another 2 x 131 steps plus the horizontal travel) after having a coffee in a deservedly popular cafe, serving brilliant coffee.<br />
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It's still carnevale, as last Sunday in Palermo, so still small children are out in special outfits.<br />
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While putting together the movie, we suddenly heard a band somewhere downstairs. I put the iPhone in the window and recorded a soundtrack for this movie, so the commentary is in subtitles.<br />
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Best to watch as HD 1080, there's a little thingie down below the picture to click and adjust. You can also watch full screen, another button below: explore, enjoy (I hope!).<br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dC28uXb53hI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-75492898853616696972011-02-26T06:38:00.002+01:002011-02-26T06:38:45.379+01:00leaving SicilyToday we will leave Sicily. A week in Siracusa, two days Modica, a week in Palermo. This week clouded by a quite unpleasant virus for us both. Remarkably fortunate to have been where we were, above the ultimate fresh food market, able to fetch small delights to cook as well as strawberries and blood oranges and bottles of strangely delicious and pale 'Fanta' - not the real thing really, just a pale Italian version authorised by Coca Cola, containing real juice (three oranges to the bottle, lacking colouring agents. No escaping the globalisation though, bring home a bottle of standard local mineral water (fraction of price of such in Australia) and discover it is a Nestle product.<br />
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Many writing projects incomplete. But lasting impressions in the mind. We realise that to be in <a href="http://www.roughguides.com/travel/europe/italy/sicily/palermo/the-capo-district.aspx">Capo district </a>we are very much at the centre of old Palermo. Which deserves several essays. Yes you do still have to pay mafia protection for a stall downstairs (conversation with someone who has to pay); yes, we do have, for more research and writing perhaps, photos of the names on the memorial to the fallen in the war against the Mafia, 100 metres away, round the corner, other side of the apartment, piazza of the Tribunale of Palermo and the Ministry of Justice. Yesterday we took the town bus to the hill village of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monreale">Monreale</a>, where the Normans left their greatest buildings. And shared a superb lunch in a small trattoria with charming Korean friend Lee Junyoung (following the rule: walk 100 metres + away from a tourist attraction).<br />
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Today we take the 10am train, the west Sicily intercity for Rome, which meets the east Sicily (Siracusa) intercity for Rome at Messina, at the top left corner of Sicily for the train to the mainland, where the two trains are joined to travel onward. Naples by 8pm. To our apartment in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Lorenzo_(Naples)">San Lorenzo district</a>, next to the new<a href="http://www.museomadre.it/"> modern art museum</a>. Having trained in Sicily for an <a href="http://www.homelidays.com/napoli/monolocale32011it1.htm">apartment on the fifth of five floors</a>.<br />
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While disappointed that we have been frustrated in not seeing more of Palermo, we sense its size and character and we are prepared in a way not possible coming from the north, to arrive at the other historical capital of the kingdom of Sicily or the Two Sicilies — Naples.<br />
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We are not unaware (speak to an older local at the bus stop and swiftly be warned of the dangers, a conversation subject that comes promptly after the weather) that there are personal risks in these places; we have prepared variously for that. At the same time, we compare such risk with other modern cities and suburbs of Sydney in particular. But this is not central to our focus on these remarkable places, full of life now, full of great history. We did not get to the Greek theatre at Siracusa; we did not take the train from Palermo to the Segesta temple (eat your heart out, Athens). Now the whip may come out, to take, from Naples, the train to Pompeii (the Circumvesuviana railway system) and the bus for Amalfi — the Amalfi drive with the Monterey Peninsula drive in California and <a href="http://aplaceof.info/farmsale/">Reedy Creek Rd, Eurobodalla</a>, the three most spectacular of the world's scenic roads.<br />
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While in recovery from the virus, we watched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Divo_(film)">Il Divo</a> and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard_(film)"> The Leopard</a>, Italian films of importance both in the history of film and for illumination of Italian history... nice to be able to pause the DVD on the computer and fetch historical background. And special to watch them here in Palermo, with a box of tissues not for the film but the virus.Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-14055701145153823662011-02-23T11:44:00.006+01:002011-02-23T12:29:34.004+01:00"Liquid light"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As reported in our previous entry, we met <a href="http://www.aldopalazzolo.it/home.html">Aldo Palazzolo</a> on Thursday last week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As you will see from<a href="http://www.aldopalazzolo.it/ll/"> this section of Aldo's web portfolio</a> he has been experimenting with 'liquid light', doing things with his fingers in the chemicals on the paper during late stages of processing of prints. <i>A</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">bbiamo</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">discusso</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">la nostra preferenza per</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">la sua</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">arte</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">ritratto</span> </i><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative"><i>tradizionale. Aldo ha detto che si deve sempre cercare il nuovo, non si puo continuare come sempre. </i>We discussed our preference for his traditional portrait art form. He in reply said that one must always search for the new. You cannot continue doing the same thing.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">I found myself in accord with this principle - as also moved by his desire to use fingers in his photography, as I have found myself essential (or rather, unstoppable) in painting.<i> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">Mi sono trovato</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">in</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">sintonia con</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">questo</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">principio</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">-</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">come</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">anche</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">mosso</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">dal suo desiderio</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">di</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">usare</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">le dita</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">nella</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">sue</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">fotografie,</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">come</span> ho<span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative"> trovato</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">indispensabile - o meglio 'inarrestibile" - mentre lavorando su</span><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative"> dipinti</span><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">I don't want to put myself in the same high class as Aldo, but as a small homage I have used my fingers (in Photoshop) to apply liquid light to a little photo I took with the iPhone. The relationship between Aldo and his portfolio is complex and growing - above all under the power of his eyes. The observer who came to eat fish and prawns is being enveloped by the art....</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">Non voglio mettermi nel campo alto di Aldo ma come uno piccolo omaggio ho usato le mie dite (in Photoshop) applicare 'liquid light' ad una piccolo foto di Aldo dall'iPhone. I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">l rapporto</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">tra</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">Aldo</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">e</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">il suo</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">portafoglio</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">è</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">complesso</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">e in crescita - sopprattutto sotto il potere dei suoi occhi</span><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">.</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">L'</span><span class="" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">osservatore</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">che è venuto</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">mangiare</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">pesce</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">e</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">gamberetti</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">è stata</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">avvolta</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">da</span> <span class="hps" title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">l'arte</span><span title="Fai clic per visualizzare le traduzioni alternative">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Eccolo:</span></i></span><br />
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The journey from Siracusa to Modica was a display of extraordinary productive countryside. A film of that below.</div>
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We planned three days in Modica choosing to be in a place out of town, surrounded by space, distinct from our experiences elsewhere of living in ancient city centres. A spectacular place, though I draw attention to any who might follow our example that there were a thousand and more steps from our place to the main street of Modica. Went down twice on foot, came back once on foot, once in taxi. Very beautiful place. </div>
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See little film of the Modica passeggiata.</div>
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Killer chocolate. We had looked forward to the Modica chocolate, close to Aztec in tradition. Two (or four, or so) pieces and we neither needed more chocolate for days nor could we eat dinner that day.</div>
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Thursday in Modica was a deliciously warm day. See small movie of that.</div>
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Friday the weather was vicious but we were collected by wonderful friend Silvia Corsini (whose apartment we had rented in Siracusa) and swept away to very generous lunch at the country home of Claudine and Gio Barone, <a href="http://giobarone.blogspot.com/">Gio a sculptor</a>, with lovely group of people including architect, art historian and photographer... but leave aside the professions — it was a lovely group of thinking and somewhat radical-minded people with imaginations, meeting whom gave our travels new dimension. Silvia had wanted me to meet in particular <a href="http://www.aldopalazzolo.it/contatti_files/Biografia.pdf">Aldo Palazzolo</a>, who kindly brought along a great portfolio of his work for us to see and discuss especially his experiments with 'liquid light'. </div>
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Saturday was clearer and we enjoyed the run through central Sicily by 'Pullman' as buses are known here. A film of that below.</div>
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Sunday in Palermo we found weather much as Sydney winter and a little film of our walk shows that. We are dealing with the world through unpleasant viruses but that does not entirely account for the sense of treacly-ness about doing things here. Great beauty. Extraordinary history. Vivacity and diversity. But it seems, more than anywhere else, a reminder of how young the state of Italy is. Many we deal with in simple transactions and attempted conversations are themselves wrestling with Italian as a second language, which means that while we have been doing well in Italian it can be a more irritated exchange with people who do not understand clear Italian and speak something impenetrably else. Monday when we went out we went past people who still come to our Piazza Porta Carini in mid-town to carry water home from a tap in big plastic containers. A few steps down the street through the Mercato del Capo where we had bought fresh things for breakfast earlier. Turn left again and enter the precinct of the Ministry of Justice; stop to pay respect to the impressive long wall of monument to Magistrates assassinated while pursuing the Mafia in recent decades. Along streets increasingly rough (and interesting) of restorers and sellers of antiques real and imagined (much as Rome centre and Trastevere in the 1960s. To the Cathedral with its remaining fragments of the Norman Cathedral noting on the door who from Roger II was crowned there. Roger on Christmas Day 1130. The Norman boys who went to England did OK and got to stay; these boys sent off south, to ease land inheritance issues for these Viking families come ashore in the lower Sienne valley did exceptionally well. But a hell of a lot harder to hang onto Sicily than England, Sicily at the centre of the world, England the strategic door to the Faeroes. Walk back home through more narrow streets, as a pedestrian, living and moving safely and swiftly, after the manner of and between the graces of Palermo car drivers. Sicily is a place that fails to make it, to get out of poverty, to get good politics, to offer work to the young. So many of those with whatever have left here, over and over again for centuries; successions of outside powers have invaded. It remains, the people remain, the centre of the world. Religion is deeply ingrained, Catholic imagery seems more serious (more real than imagery) and central to life than elsewhere except say in central America or rural Philippines. </div>
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The flatness of Palermo has an effect, intensifying the enclosure, mercifully in late winter; it must be so much greater in summer. We may get to see the end of a street, the spire of a church, but intense life is in small places.</div>
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TRAIN FROM SIRACUSA TO MODICA<br />
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THE PASSEGGIATA AT MODICA<br />
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Dennis Argallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465343834162583738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473327427571158981.post-41575574933996532352011-02-16T08:03:00.001+01:002011-02-16T08:13:58.355+01:00today to Modica/reflectionsWe leave Siracusa today for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modica">Modica</a>. We head southwest into the Iblean mountains to the Val di Noto, which runs down towards Catania. The Val di Noto was hit by an enormous earthquake in 1693, utterly destroying some towns. Reconstruction was well funded by church and state and with something of a fresh start, some of the finest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque">baroque</a> buildings anywhere were built. So the valley, including Modica, today has World Heritage status.<br />
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Modica is also a place of traditional (including Aztec traditional) <a href="http://pureandauthentic.co.uk/en/travels/Art_History_and_Chocolate_of_Modica">chocolate</a> making, so we will investigate and report.<br />
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We reflect on walking around the battlements of the Castello Maniace yesterday. At the entrance to one of the finest harbours of the Mediterranean. But not industrialised inside the harbour. After defeating Athens in this harbour in 419BC, Siracusa found itself in the beginning of what would be a hundred year war with Carthage - Carthage on the site of the modern Tunis. "Out there is Tunisia and Carthage," said one of the custodians of the Castello to me. When you look at the map below, you see that Carthage is in fact to the west, its Phoenicians having come from what is now Lebanon. Look east from here and you could sail straight past the Peloponnese - the southern water washed portions of Greece - and up to Athens. The 100 year war ended when a Siracusan army of 14000 went to Carthage and won on land. Then in the 200s BC it was Rome's time, and the command of the Mediterranean and the achievement of colonies in Africa meant war with Siracusa and Sicily. It began the usual way: Roman settlers in Sicily appealed to both Rome and Carthage for protection against bullying from all these Greeks here. Schoolyards were ever such.<br />
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Here is a nice quote from Robert Kaplan's wonderful <i>Mediterranean Winter</i> Vintage Books 2004, pp 40-41<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Phoenicians carving out a great sovereign state on Berber soil while fending off desert tribesmen: all so that Phoenician Carthage could be culturally infiltrated by the Greeks, and then obliterated by the Romans, whose own imperial longevity would lead to decline and conquest by Vandals... The beach at Carthage taught a lesson [to Kaplan, visiting in the 1970s] in the impermanence of empires at a time when the Cold War, and the hegemonic struggle it represented, seemed likely to go on forever.... [snip]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Later that afternoon I visited the American War Cemetery in Carthage which holds the remains of 2,841 American soldiers killed in the Allied campaigns in North Africa. In November 1942, American troops landed in Morocco to begin the rollback of the Axis powers in the Mediterranean. The allies retraced the path of the Vandals across north Africa with similar lightning speed...</span><br />
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A long historical perspective and avoidance of chauvinist blindness are relevant. I do not recall to which visitor he was replying, but Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, asked in the early 1970s what he thought of the outcome of the French revolution, reportedly replied: "It's too soon to tell."<br />
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Three nights now in Modica and then to Palermo. Click the map to enlarge.<br />
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But no, we pitched for a saunter and the sun, going 250 metres to the promontory at mouth of the Porto Grande, to visit the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Maniace">Castello Maniace</a>. Photos of geometrical and architectural form, in the main. See how sunny. We had our wonderings about walking in the footsteps of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, or...<br />
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On the way home for siesta, we chose an extraordinary place to eat, owned by he who turned out to be the sculptor with his studio below us here. Wonderful food in imaginative setting.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This photo below shows very elegant and clever modern drainage - these in terracotta but the same unit construction different scale used for example to carry waste to the ground from multilevel building works</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and here to enter the restaurant, carved waiter holding embroidered menus</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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