Licata
Now that Serenity is in Licata for the winter I thought I would do a post about the town and marina.
We went on a guided walking tour of the town, organised by the marina.
One of the main streets in town with the town hall in the distance.
A typical narrow street, just about a car width, but how narrow are those flats!!
Inside the main church, known as the church of the Black Christ. The original church was burned and, although this statue survived, they painted it black in commemoration of the fire.
The beautiful interior of the same church - decorated just like Wedgewood china!
This time we were able to go into the castle on the hill above the marina that we had walked up to with Katy. There were several rooms of museum items from everyday life.
Another of the many churches in town.
San Angelo's church in San Angelo's square where we went sketching with the art group.
Detail of a window at the archive centre.
We were taken into the amazing network of tunnels that we had no idea were under the town. The original tunnels were dug by the Greeks. At one time they provided water to the town as the water passed along the vein of clay you can see behind Dave. The tunnels were more recently used as air raid shelters in the war.
At the museum in town we saw some anchors that had been found off the coast of Sicily which they have dated back to about 60BC.
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