Return to Catania

We spent one more day in Catania before flying on to Dublin. We visited the World War II Museum. At first A movie of actual footage of the invasion of Sicily by The allies is shown. A staged village of the 1940s gives you the idea how simple Sicilian life was. You transition very quickly as a siren goes off and you are ushered into a bomb shelter where you hear guns and bombs exploding and the room starts to shake. Leaving the shelter you enter a room with debris all around you. On the next floor more short movies, maps and dioramas. At the end there is room dedicated to an American soldier that took pictures before during and after. This was a spectacular exhibit.
http://www.italiannotebook.com/places/allied-landings-in-sicily-museum/

Walkabout Palermo

We did several things this morning but the most interesting was the international puppet museum. They had shadow puppets to marionettes and movies of the their use from Italy to Vietnam from India to Africa from China to France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Giulia_(Palermo)?wprov=sfti1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orto_botanico_di_Palermo?wprov=sfti1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_dell%27Ammiraglio?wprov=sfti1
Tomorrow we start our venture homeward. Catania👉🏿Dublin👉🏿San Francisco.
Cheers to all who have read a bit of this blog. We have enjoyed constructing it. J&S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalsa?wprov=sfti1

https://www.visitpalermo.it/en/meraviglia/international-museums-of-puppets-pasqualino-palermo-261.html

http://www.italianways.com/the-castle-of-utveggio-the-pink-madness-overlooking-palermo/

Sanctuary of Santa Rosallle

We took a short bus ride to the patron saint of Polermo’s Sanctuary on Mt Pelliegrino. She was the daughter of a Norman noble who lived like a hermit on the mountain where she died in 1166. A plague hit polermo in 1624. She appeared to two people and told them where her bones were. She also told them to take her bones all through Polermo. After the procession the plague ended. The Sanctuary is a cave that is beautiful and unusual. Perhaps the most unusual spot we have ever visited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Rosalia?wprov=sfti1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pellegrino?wprov=sfti1
Castle on the neighboring mountain.
http://www.italianways.com/the-castle-of-utveggio-the-pink-madness-overlooking-palermo/

The metal sheeting hanging from the ceiling collects water that percolates through small cracks after a rain, thus holly water. Tap on pictures to make them larger.