cefalu

From Agrigento to Cefalu - like Positano, a resort town with a hike up onto a hill immediately behind it; but, unlike Positano, in Sicily rather than the Amalfi coast. Beautiful and not quite yet spoiled by tourism - I stayed in an apartment for 30 euros, and the very old but very friendly lady next door tried to invite me over for breakfast (I think - my Italian is almost nonexistent, and Sicilian is about as different, spoken, as Danish and Norwegian), but I had to catch a train to Palermo.



Cefalu also occupies a strategic point on the northern coast of Sicily - from what's now known as the Rock, it's possible to see pretty much all of the northern coastline. So the Saracens had built a fortress on the Rock. When the Normans came, everybody moved downstairs. But presumably not to be close to the Cathedral, which is a stunning example of how not to combine Arab and Norman influences. The mosaics inside are nice, of course. But the camera was not.