Museums and Exhibitions
British Museum: Sicily – Culture and Conquest 21 April – 14 August 2016
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Storms, War & Shipwrecks Treasures from the Sicilian Seas
The beauty of history. Part of the exhibition Storms, War & Shipwrecks - Treasures from the Sicilian Seas at the Ashmolean Museum, June-September 2016.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Hercules wrestling with Antaeus. Marble support for table-top. Greek, 200-100 BC. Found off the coast of Catania. Ashmolean Museum / Museo Civico 'Castello Ursino', Catania. The cartibulum was used in grand Roman villas to display the family's silver plate.
Part of the exhibition Storms, War & Shipwrecks - Treasures from the Sicilian Seas at the Ashmolean Museum, June-September 2016.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Palermo: Museum of the Holy Inquisition in Sicily (Carceri dell'Inquisizione)
Mandralisca
Tuna fish salesman (Mandralisca Museum, Cefalù). The Museum's Homepage is unfortunately not well updated and furthermore only in Italian.
Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad / Wonders of Sicily
Acireale - Agrigento - Castelbuono - Catania - Cefalù - Enna - Erice - Modica - Monreale - Noto - Palermo - Ragusa Ibla - Segesta - Selinunte - Taormina - Syracuse (Siracusa) - Trapani -
Alesa Arconidea - Aleister Crowley in Cefalù - Bagheria - Balconies in Sicily - Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden - Baroque architecture in Sicily - Birds in Sicily - Caccamo - cars in Sicily - Castelmola - Cats in Italy - Collesano - Death in Sicily - Death in Sardinia - Entella - Film locations in Sicily - Fish, fishermen and fish markets in Sicily - Gela - Gibilmanna - Greeks in Sicily - Halaesa Arconidea - insects in Sicily - Linguaglossa - Lizards in Sicily - Maps of Sicily - Monreale Cathedral - Monreale Cloister - Life in Sicily - Mosaics in Sicily - Mount Etna - Museums and Exhibitions - Normans in Sicily - Palermo: Museum of the Holy Inquisition - Palermo: the Norman Palace - Palermo: Oratorio del SS. Rosario, San Domenico - Palermo: the Palatine Chapel (Cappella Palatina) - Palermo: Richard Wagner in Sicily - Palermo: La Zisa - Palermo: Chiesa Santa Maria della Catena (Church of Saint Mary of the Chain) - Syracuse: The Archeological Park - Tommaso Fazello - Tuna fishing in Sicily (La Mattanza) - Videos - Villa Palagonia (Bagheria) "The Villa of Monsters" (Villa dei Mostri) - Villa Romana del Casale (near Piazza Armerina) - Sicily in Art - Sicilian Art and Artists - The White Lotus season 2 locations in Sicily -
