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PMR521-02 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: traditionally decorated Sicilian bicycle-cart, showing scenes of battles of Christians versus the Moors, dating back to the Spanish rule of Sicily. Keywords: Sicilia, ornamentation, colourful, decorating, painting, artwork
PMR520-10 Italy, Sicily, Selinunte: a street on the Acropolis. Keywords: archeological, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-09 Italy, Sicily, Selinunte: autumn-flowering Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) used by the ancients for medical purposes, love potions, and as an aphrodisiac. Keywords: Sicilia, flora, wild flowers, flowers, botanical, botany
PMR520-08 Italy, Sicily, Selinunte: Temple of Hera (?) was built after the battle of Himera in mid-5th century BC and re-erected in 1956. Keywords: archeological, national heritage, historical, archeology, excavations, Sicilia, Doric columns, architecture
PMR520-07 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: remains of the city wall, 12 kilometres long, subsequently hollowed out in many places for Byzantine burial sites; Temple of "Juno Lacinia" in the background. Keywords: archeological, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-06 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: recently uncovered monument with scrolled stone bench; the new town in the background. Keywords: archeological, architecture, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-05 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: Temple of "Castor and Pollux" (the Dioscuri) was reconstructed with elements from various different buildings. Keywords: archeological, architrave, Doric columns, architecture, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-04 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: reassembled telamon figure almost 8 metres high, used to support the architrave of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, with many others. Keywords: archeological, architecture, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-03 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: temple of Olympian Zeus; half of a capital is one of the few remaining recognisable features of the largest Greek Temple in the world, started in 480 BC but never finished. The new town in the background. Keywords: archeological, agave, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR520-02 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: the traditionally decorated Sicilian horse-cart, showing scenes of battles of Christians versus the Moors, dating back to the Spanish rule of Sicily, is now a relic of the past. Keywords: Sicilia, ornamentation, colourful, decorating, painting, artwork
PMR520-01 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: the remaining columns of the Temple of Hercules (6th century BC) re-erected by Sir Alexander Hardcastle in 1923. Keywords: archeological, architecture, Doric columns, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR519-12 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: traditionally decorated Sicilian horse and cart with owner. Keywords: Sicilia, artwork, painting, decorating, colourful, ornamentation, plumes
PMR519-11 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: Tomb of "Theron", a funerary monument in Greek style, with columns of the Temple of Hercules in the distance. Keywords: archeological, mausoleum, grave, architecture, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR519-10 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: early Christian and Byzantine cemetery, bisected by a narrow "street", with the new town in the background. Keywords: archeological, necropolis, graveyard, graves, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR519-09 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: the Temple of Concord, dating from 450-440 BC, the culminating phase of the Doric order, is one of the most complete Greek temples in existence. Keywords: archeological, Doric columns, architecture, Sicilia, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR519-08 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: corner of the Temple of Concord, dating from 450-440 BC, the culminating phase of the Doric order, with the new town in the background. Keywords: archeological, Doric columns, architecture, Sicilia, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR519-07 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: view of the new approach-road and surrounding countryside from the cathedral. Keywords: Sicilia, viaduct, landscape, panorama
PMR519-06 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: the cathedral, San Gerlando, with adjoining square belltower, occupies the highest point of the old town. Keywords: national heritage, church, Catholic, architecture, Sicilia, historical
PMR519-05 Italy, Sicily, Agrigento: tree-lined Viale della Vittoria and Via F. Crispi with the old town on the hill in the background. Keywords: Sicilia, street scene, traffic, terraces, architecture
PMR519-04 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: dominating the city, the new church, "Madonnina delle lacrime", was built to house a miracle-working Madonna figure which "cries". Keywords: Sicilia, Catholic, Christian, architecture
PMR519-03 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: facade of the Church of San Giovanni alle Catacombe, the original cathedral of the city, dating from the 3rd century AD, but rebuilt after an earthquake in 1693. Keywords: national heritage, Romanesque, architecture, Sicilia, historical
PMR519-02 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: Piazza Duomo with Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco facing the Municipio and Duomo. Keywords: national heritage, architecture, Sicilia, historical
PMR519-01 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: solitary tent on the campsite "Camping Agritourist". Keywords: Sicilia
PMR518-12 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: Baroque facade of the cathedral, Santa Maria delle Colonne, which incorporates a Greek temple with 28 Doric columns, and Arabic, Norman and Byzantine elements; a building sacred for 2,500 years! Keywords: national heritage, architecture, Sicilia, historical
PMR518-11 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: the narrow strait separating Ortygia from the mainland is popular with anglers. Keywords: Sicilia, architecture, quayside scene, fisherman, fishing
PMR518-10 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: moorings and frontages of the buildings on the Foro Vittorio Emenuele II, part of the old town on the island of Ortygia. Keywords: Sicilia, quayside, jetty, vessels, ships
PMR518-09 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: Roman amphitheatre from the 3rd century AD, well equipped for flooding to stage "sea battles", or wild animal fights. Keywords: archeological, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR518-08 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: the remains of the enormous Altar of Zeus, built for Hiero II, which was 192 metres long and hewn from the bedrock for public sacrifices. Keywords: archeological, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR518-07 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa: the Greek amphitheatre, carved out of the bedrock, for 15.000 spectators, probably dated from the 3rd century BC. At the top right is the Nymphaeum, a cave where a spring gushes. Keywords: archeological, Sicilia, excavations, archeology, historical, national heritage
PMR518-06 Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Casale: detail of a floor mosaic showing bikini-clad girls exercising in a gymnasium. (3rd century AD). Keywords: Sicilia, national heritage, historic
PMR518-05 Italy, Sicily, Piazza Armerina, Villa Romana del Casale: detail of a floor mosaic showing the capture of wild animals for Roman arenas (3rd century AD). Keywords: Sicilia, national heritage, historic
PMR518-04 Italy, Sicily, Castiglione: this mediaeval town clusters around the Arab-Norman fortifications on the top of a hill, about 20 kilometres from Taormina. Keywords: picturesque, defence, Sicilia, national heritage, historic, landscape, architecture
PMR518-03 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: a typical street in the old quarter. Keywords: architecture, street scene, Sicilia, national heritage
PMR518-02 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: the town from above, with the Greek amphitheatre (3rd century BC) top left. Keywords: picturesque, panorama, landscape, historic, Sicilia
PMR518-01 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: view of the town from above, the Greek amphitheatre (3rd century BC), and the coast road from the Saracens' Castle. Keywords: picturesque, Sicilia, panorama, coast
PMR517-12 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: view from the old Saracen Castle with the village of Castelmola on its rock. Keywords: picturesque, hills, Opuntia, cactus, Sicilia, national heritage, historic, landscape
PMR517-11 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: cross on Monte Tauro, with luxuriant and colourful vegetation on the mountainside. Keywords: picturesque, Sicilia, landscape
PMR517-10 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: Porta Catania, the western gate. Keywords: historic, architecture, Sicilia, national heritage
PMR517-09 Italy, Sicily, Taormina: Piazza del Duomo with 15th century facade of St. Nicholas Cathedral. The Baroque fountain is crowned with a stone centaur, the symbol of Taormina. Keywords: picturesque, Sicilia, mediaeval, national heritage, historic, architecture
PMR517-08 Italy, Sicily, Mount Etna: typical vegetation on new lava; sweet chestnut trees are prolific. Keywords: Sicilia, biotope, volcanic, volcano
PMR517-07 Italy, Sicily, Mount Etna: black volcanic cinders from a recent eruption, about 100 metres below the lip of the crater. The ground is hot, and glows in places, but in others it overlies snow. The last eruption was about 18 months previously. Keywords: Sicilia, lifeless, barren, lava, volcano
PMR517-06 Italy, Sicily, Mount Etna: black volcanic cinders from a recent eruption, about 100 metres below the lip of the crater. The ground is hot, and glows in places, but in others it overlies snow. The last eruption was about 18 months previously. Keywords: Sicilia, lifeless, barren, lava, volcano
PMR517-05 Italy, Sicily, Catania: the elephant fountain, symbol of Catania, stands in the Piazza Duomo. The obelisk was brought from Egypt by the Romans; the elephant was carved from volcanic lava in Byzantine times. The city has been buried under lava from Etna seven times in recorded history. Keywords: picturesque, Sicilia, historic, volcanic
PMR517-04 Italy, Sicily, Acireale: harbour of Santa Maria La Scala, a fishing village. Keywords: picturesque, Sicilia, fishing boats, quayside

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