Today we visited the island of Sicily. We drove in the morning to the village of Segesta where around the 5th century BCE the Romans had begun construction of a great temple but never finished it, probably due to the occupation of the city by the Carthaginians in 409 BCE.
We then drove to the mountaintop village of Erice where first we had a delicious lunch at a hotel restaurant. We then toured Erice -- it took a half hour to drive up the switchbacks to the mountain village, but the views were worth it!
Then back to the town of Marsala and our ship.
A lovely Sicilian sunset. On to Tunisia, in North Africa, in the morning.
Posted with Blogsy
No comments:
Post a Comment