I know I'm forever quoting Browning and I am about to do so again: Today the weather has been perfect - sunny but not stiflingly hot, with pure air and a light breeze now and then - one of those days, in short, when I am so grateful to be alive and in Italy, a country I have loved all my adult life; and a day when I find myself repeating Browning's wonderful lines:
"Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy."
Such lovers old are I and she;
So it always was and shall ever be!"
So what better day for a walk around Modica Bassa? I took some photos for you:
So what better day for a walk around Modica Bassa? I took some photos for you:
1. Looking up towards the Norman castle. But take a close look at the centre of the picture. Can you see what look like caves? That's exactly what they are and people made their homes in them within living memory. I have a friend who remembers hiding from the Germans in them in WW2.
2. Looking towards the castle again.
3. Bell tower of Santa Maria di Betlemme.
4. I love the colour of the stone of Santa Maria del Soccorso.
5,6,7. Dwellings.
8. Our restored Teatro Garibaldi, which is quite charming inside.
9. Palm trees outside a school.
10, 11. This view makes my heart sing: looking up at Modica Alta.
