Sciacca, Sicily

Home of my paternal grandparents who were of the rugged fishermen class.

In his book "Italian Journey", Goethe wrote:
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.”

Although there was a prevailing yellow color cast to all these landscapes, I never even caught a tiny whiff of the local sulfur spring baths, which is one of the main tourist attractions in Sciacca.




Sciacca Rock




Sciacca Beach (360 degree panorama)




BTW, Sciacca has a hole in the wall cliff...













a nice clean beach,




and some volcanic rocks.




Here is a view from above



 
and another view over to the south,



 
and my best yellow daisy panorama to date.




the sun rising over a hill (360 degree panorama)




an old train and sea travel station




a massive wall




Goethe was in Sciacca...




a view from above




During a walk through the city, we happened some old doors,




numerous apartment porches with a view of the sea,




the town hall plaza (360 degree photo)




a carousel



 
stairs decorated with ceramic tiles,




and of course, the ubiquitous asterisk in the pavement
(actually I only found one other asterisk that was painted on a sidewalk in Pittsburgh)








a mighty long view from the restaurant plaza above Sciacca Harbor
(this one took a long time to shoot and stitch together, very tricky)





and a couple of views at sea level to my delight...



and finally, a full moonset view from the balcony of our room at the Grand Hotel in Sciacca.


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