Posted on 07/05/2020 7:55:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy in 4K (UHD) HDR
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BTW, in case anyone asks, I kinda wanna go really badly.
http://www.visitsicily.info/en/sicily-to-your-home/
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Well, having eaten Norwegian and Italian Food, I can say, without reservation, that Italian food is way better.
I know a place that serves great Viking food
A line from a comedy :-)
LOL!
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
:^) 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
To bad most of the place is toilet bowl now.
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 :)
Looks like the whole town would cost about €200 to buy and maybe about five quick reno's flipped would finance the whole project.
:^) Sure, but the couple of weeks of summer in Norway must be great! ;^)
lol
I’m thinking of buying the town :)
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
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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
Yes, a book that's big enough to be used as a coffee table.
Ive been to Sicily twice. Once for a week. Its like being on another planet.
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.
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.
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