Around Palermo

Around Palermo!!

Page Three

This is the view from the bus to Mt. Pelligrino, I visit this every time in Palermo. It overlooks the entire city and Bay. A 17th century shrine on top is for Palermo's Patron Saint, Santa Rosalia

Another view of the Statue. Our great, grandmother, Rosalia Anello, was probably named after this lady. The road to the top of this tall mountain was originally a road for the shephards on this mountain.We met up with sheep on this road on the way down to the Shrine.

Here I am at the Statue of Rosalia, in 2010 Tom and I tried to find this by hiking thru the forest, but little did we know the bus takes you right there.

At the second rockie point in the background, you can see where Tom and I ended up last time. Here is Laurie looking at the view down to the sea below. This mountain has a long hiistory, Hannibal's father, Hamilcar hid here during part of the Punic war in 247 BC, There is also cave drawings from the paleolithic period, but they are in a cave way down by the sea.

Here is the cave where the Shrine to Santa Rosalia is, to the right, at the left is a church built on to the rock that holds the cave. The story is Rosalia lived in this cave as a hermit in the 12th century.

Inside the Cave Shrine is some beautiful art, this is solid marble with inlaid decoration and Christ on the Cross.

My good friend from the Ustica blog, Mario Oddo, escorted us around Palermo with his nephew Alfredo doing the driving. Mario on the right and Alfredo on the left. We sure appreciated their time and hectic city driving. Here we are at Mondello, the popular beach city of Palermo.

This is the Mondello Palace, in the middle of the beach. Very famous restaurant and party palace. My friend from Palermo that lives in San Diego, Maurizio Pavone and his wife Courtney, had their wedding reception here several years ago.

Another foto at Mondello with Laurie. After our tour with Mario, we caught a city bus, returned here with bathing suits and towels and swam in this beautiful water. Nuatiamo en spiaggia.

On the last night in Palermo, after a lovely dinner at Mario Oddo's home, cooked by his wife Franca, Laurie and I took in a Symphony Concert at Teatro Politeamo, pictured here. Beings we missed the 1st half, they let us in free !! This was built in 1875 for the "people", the othertheatre, Teatro Massimo, was for the elite. Our grandfather was born in Palermo 3 years after this construction.

Mondello again. Mario also took us to the Cathedral and the city of Monreale that day. He is working on getting more documents of our ancestors there.

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