Travel in Italy Class IV Southern Italy and Sicily
And now, we head South!
Naples
National Archeological Museum Capella Sansavero Spaccanapoli (Via Benedetto Croce) Piazza Plebiscito
Procida Ischia Location of Capri, Ischia and Procida
Spaccanapoli Piazza Gesù Nuovo Via Benedetto Croceo
PIAZZA DEL PLEBISCITO
Villa Papyri - Herculaneum
Blue Vase Pompeii Etched Glass
DETAIL - FARNESE BULL
Dancers Greek 3 rd Century BC Villa Poppea
Battle of Issus 333 BC Darius (Persian) and Alexander the Great (Macedonian)
Galata Morente 1st Century AD - Roman
Museo Capella Sansavero
Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753
Disillusion Francesco Queirolo, 1753-54
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta San Gennaro September 19
Castel Nuovo Maschio Angioino 1279 1142 Argonese and Anjou
CASERTA Luigi Vanvitelli 1752 Charles VII of Naples Greatgrandson Cosimo I de Medici) Bourbon Kings of Naples and Sicily 1200 Rooms
Herculaneum / Ercolano
Pompeii The Forum - Pompeii Est. 1 st Cent. A.D. Roman mercantile & resort city 12 miles from Sorrento
August 24 27, 79 A.D. Covered town in ash and mud
Amphitheater Baths Western Gate
Be Aware
PAESTUM
Villa Poppea / Villa Oplontis Torre Annunziata
Vico Equense
Visiting the Amalfi Coast
Amalfi Coast Road Began - 1858, Reign of Ferdinand II of Bourbon Suspended in 1876 1930-1939 1951 - Complete "Nastro Azzuro" Blue Ribbon Local Buses Praiano
Sorrento
Piazza Tasso
Sant Agata sui Due Golfi
Isole Li Galli (Le Sirenuse) (Li Galli (It.) or The Roosters)
Nerano
View South from above Nerano
Positano
Shopping on the Amalfi Coast Silk Limoncello Marquetry Also called Intarsio Ceramics Grotto Smerelda and Vietri Amalfi Paper products
Amalfi
St. Andrew s Cathderal/Duomo 11 th Century / 4 th Crusade
Ravello
Villa Cimbrone
Villa Rufolo
CAPRI
Marina Grande Waterfront
Capri Harbor
Faraglioni rock stacks
Emperor Tiberius 27 AD 37 AD
SPA Hotel Mezzatore - Ischia
Paestum - Site
Temple of Neptune 470 to 460 BC
Fare una pausa
SICILY SICILY BREAK... When you return from break... SICILY!
SICILY
Corleone Palermo Magna Graecia Sicily-Giardini Naxos 734 BC Tri (Three) Akra (Leg) Trinacria Greek
Padre nostro, che sei nei cieli Patri nostrum, ca siti ntrô celu
An Island Conquered
SICILY A HISTORY OF OCCUPATION 50,000 year old human skull near Agrigento 735 BC Naxo (Chalcidiens of Euboea) 485 BC Gelon, Tyrant of Gela occupies all of Sicily 282 BC Rome and Carthage battle for Sicily-First Punic War 241 BC Carthage cedes Sicily to Rome 241 BC 440 AD: Rome 440 AD Vandals of North Africa capture Sicily 491 AD Ostragoths capture island from Vandals
533 AD Byzantine occupation 827 AD Saracens from North Africa, occupation 1060 AD Normans conquer Sicily 1194 AD German occupation 1266 Duke of Anjou/French occupation 1282 Sicilians revolt against the French (Sicilian Vespers) 1282 AD 1707 AD Spanish occupation 1707 AD 1734 AD Austrian occupation 1734 AD 1806 AD House of Bourbon occupation 1806 AD 1860 AD Kingdom of the Two Sicily's 1860 United Italy under Vittorio Emanuelle
Sites to visit Taormina Roman Amphitheater Siracusa Greek and Roman Sites Ragusa and Modica 14 th Cent. B.C. Noto Sicilian Baroque UNESCO Agrigento Valley of the Temples Valle d Ispicha near Scicli
Palermo
Castellammare del Golfo
Scopello
Scopello
Monreale
Corleone
Erice
Segesta 7 th Century B.C.
Amphitheater Elymian and Greek
Selinunte 7 th Century B.C.
Agrigento Valley of the Temples
Igor Mitoraj - Temple of Hercules
Hotel Villa Athena
Caltagirone "qal'at-al-jarar" - Castle of [pottery] jars
Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte 1608
San Michele di Ganzaria
Ristorante Rustico Hotel Pomara
Villa del Casale
25,000 SQ FT Mosaics
Noto, Ragusa, Modica, Scicli
Villadorata Noto Balcony?
Ragusa, Modica Noto, Scicli UNESCO
Modica
Scicli
Sampieri
Noto, Ragusa, Modica, Scicli
Home of Archimedes Gelon of Siracusa Duomo/Temple Ortigia Siracusa
Ortigia Street - Siracusa
Orecchio di Dionisio Ear of Dionysus
Teatro Greco di Siracusa
Mt Etna
4 Archi - Milo
Porcini
Taormina Greek / Roman Amphitheater
Aeolian Islands Stromboli
Lipari with Vulcano in the background
You may have the Universe, if I may have Italy. Giuseppe Verdi