So I spent last weekend in Cefalù and it was lovely. Words to come next week, but in the meantime here are some pictures. Enjoy!
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- Lavatoio medievale
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- Lavatoio medievale – medieval baths, fed by a natural spring
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- Bread and fishes for Frottola, a religious procession to give thanks for food
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- Centrepiece
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- One of the frottola floats, decorated with tree branches, fruit, vegetables and bread
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- Gossip
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- Farmer in the making
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- All that bread is just too tempting …
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- Flower girls
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- Preparing for the off
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- Listening hard
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- Thankful
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- Cheeky monkey!
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- Morrissey’s little sister?
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- Evviva pane! Hooray for bread!
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- Watching the procession from the church of purgatory
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- The marching band
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- That was their dog, believe it or not.
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- After the bread has been carried through the streets, it is blessed and handed out to everyone in the Duomo square
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- Boys on the steps of the seminary
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- Congratulations to the bride and groom! Inside this big balloon, there are lots of smaller balloons …
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- … which are released when the bride and groom stick a pair of pins into the big balloon
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- Sposa bagnata, sposa fortunata
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- Looming over Cefalù is La Rocca. As the name suggests, it is an enormous rock with a castle right at the top, and a temple to Diana (the story goes that she is imprisoned inside the rock) halfway up.
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- Almost at the top …
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- Atop a castle wall, about as high as you can go
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- Castle remains
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- Rust and shadows
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- The Chiesa di Sant’Anna, next to the Temple of Diana
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- Deanna surveying Cefalù and the temple of her (almost) namesake
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- The walls of Diana’s temple
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- I don’t read Greek, but I’m guessing this says something about the enormous heap of megalithic stones behind it …
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- Scarily organised for Sicily
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- ‘bis’ means ‘again’, so these signs are for number 69 and number 69 again
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- Sunset from our B&B
