Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily http://www.flyingmonk.com/sicily.html We traveled to Sicily for almost two weeks and if there were summer we would have stayed even longer. We flew to Catania, the birth place of the opera composer Bellini, and we climbed on Mt. Etna that became pretty active recently and does not let you go all the way on top, to Siracusa, the city where Archimede was born and lived, to Piaza Armerina, in whose neighborhood is the famous Roman Villa of Casale, with its magnificent mosaics, to Agrigento, with its Vale Di Templi that impressed Goethe so much that he declared that after you see it you can not rejoice seeing something else, to Eracle Minoa and Sciacca, famous place for ceramics, to Erice, medieval hill town, and to the famous-infamous Palermo, a vibrant baroque city, full of beautiful buildings and the Mafia. From Palermo we visited the cathedral of Monreale, a Sistine chapel of the mosaics, and the village of Corleone, the place from where Mafia ruled Sicily for the last 50 years, to Cefalu, a pretty resort on the North Sea, ending in Taormina, a very beautiful glitzy resort town.