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Nowadays Castello Ursino houses Catania Civico Museum displaying artifacts from the castle as well as the greater geographical area. Exibits date from Classical era onward, representing the diverse influences throught Sicilian history. It is also used for the important art exsibitions.
Updated Sep 19, 2011
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I had never seen anything like this before, but in Italy there are these guys who work a particular stretch of road or a street corner parking cars and coordinating just about everything that could happen in this little part of the world.
I first saw this guy and thought he was a bum begging for money but when I watched closer people would actually give him their car keys and he would park their car and move it if it were double parked.
This guy was a cartoon-like figure who shuffled with stiff legs as he walked and he wore this same outfit everyday. He would park cars, light people cigarettes, give directions, pickup trash and place it in the dumpster after he rummaged through it. I guess he made a difference and kept the chaos to a minimum on this particular street corner.
Written May 30, 2007
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Italians are great talkers, debaters and overall social people. I was sitting in my room one day and watched as a conversation was going on down on the street corner. I couldn't hear anything but I watched the animated gestures that these guys were doing to get their point across.
The regular guy who parks cars and directs traffic on this street corner is confronted by the guy on the left with glasses on. He is angry at the guy with the hat for some reason. Then this other guy walks up and gets into it with the guy with glassess on. It must have been a heated debate as they went on and on for about an hour with these dramatic gestures.
Written May 30, 2007
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Sicily greets a lot of tourists from all parts of the world. But when we go off the beating tourist path, we find the deep and traditional Sicily very prudish. I remember to have had a fair discussion with a Sicilian mother who was astonished to see my wife and my daugter both wearing a short trouser.
An other cultural habit frequent in the European warm countries. The native men seem to live in the streets. I do not know if they are on holiday or unemployed or if they are night-workers. They are waiting on the footpaths and when a known car stops (and obstrucks the street) they cross to have a short talk with the driver. It seems to be too visible to be an unlegale traffic but the Mafia is not so far...
Written Sep 7, 2002
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Sicily greets a lot of tourists from all parts of the world. But when we go off the beating tourist path, we find the deep and traditional Sicily very prudish....
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So I spent a year living in Catania, teaching English, and traveling Sicily. It was my home base it's a heck of a town.
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One of Italy's undiscovered gems
It's far away from the main tourist routes but it's near everything. Half an hour from Southern Italy's tallest mountain (the still very active volcano Etna) and a short shot from some of the best...
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Catania is a beautiful Baroque Italian city. The city itself is rather large and just like any other city has it good and bad places to be. The main squares or piazzas are; Piazza Stesicoro, Piazza......
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Ultimately Sicilia. Yes, ultimately indeed because I have planned and postponed visiting Sicily so many times in passed few years. We took four days Easter package by plain but unfortunatelly Palermo...
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