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The theatre in Palermo In the city of Palermo Yellow light in Palermo The 'Yellow City' by Fabrizio Felmi Cacciatore                                               Shall I start saying that I love this city? Yeah, it is a good start for my blog, I think :P I am visiting the 'yellow city' for the first time, due to an APV Erasmus Plus meeting. Two days of work and visit suited my mind well as I am now dead tired and still full of joy :)   Maghweb  NGO  APV Erasmus Plus meeting (most of the following pictures are from my APV colleagues: Diana Gonsalves, Fabrizio Felmi and a beautiful lady from the middle of this picture)  The Cathedral of Palermo Fountains backwards What fascinated me the most was the impressive architecture with Phoenician, Byzantine, Norman and Arabic influences. Palermo has R...

    Being a part of Castiglione in the Teverina district, this small village has at the bottom the rivers ‘il Fosso Cieco’ (or di Vionica) and ‘il Rio Chiaro’ (or Fossatello), which are situated 346 meters from the sea, near to the city of Viterbo.       In the village there is an ancient castle which is still inhabited by some of the village’s population. Even though there are no more than 100 persons living in the village, it has three small churches, two open until 10 PM, pubs, and one shop (where you can buy both vegetables, detergents, clothes and other household items).   Around the castle, there are ancient houses built by stones which are still very well kept. Each place is surrounded by flowers. The inhabitants are old (as their children moved out to Viterbo, Rome or other cities), kind and friendly.   If you learn a little bit of Italian and are able to say ‘hi’ to them, you can be invited inside their home fo...

Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, I am surrounded by history. It’s like I am cursed with seeing things from the past.     Well, I am finding myself in Viterbo, an Italian fortress situated 80Km North of Rome, surrounded by the mountains:   Monti Cimini and Monti Volsini. The place was an Etruscan settlement called Surenna.   The Roman army destroyed the Etruscan centres but benefited greatly from this civilisation.   The city is one the best preserved places in central Italy in terms of architecture.   The first report of the city dates to the eighth century CE, when it is identified as Castrum Viterbii. It was fortified in 773 by the Lombard King Desiderius in his vain attempt to conquer Rome. When the popes switched to the Frankish support, Viterbo became part of the Papal States, but this status was to be highly contested by the emperors in the following centuries, until 1095 from which it is known that it became a free commun...