The Tragedy

Experience Blog 5 Our last day of exploring new places dawned upon us. Much like Mount Etna, I was extremely excited to see what the day offered us, this time being exploring the catacombs of Siracusa and following up with a Greek tragedy in an actual outdoors theatre. While the catacombs certainly were interesting, the…

Posted by evan on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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A Classic Greek Tragedy

On Wednesday night, we attended a Greek Tragedy at the Teatro Greco of Siracusa. The theatre is built into a hill so that the audience can look down at the play and also see the city of Siracusa in the background. Seeing a play in Greek tragedy style was an unbelievable experience, especially to see…

Posted by socrates on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post, Blog posts

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La Brace

The night before the free weekend began, a group of ten of us went to a small restaurant in the heart of Cefalu called La Brace. One of us looked it up beforehand and read that it is one of the better restaurants in town, but is usually not very crowded or publicized due to…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Il mare

  pic.twitter.com/Etglvc06aM — MikeyP (@michaelbpelleg1) June 1, 2017 As a 19-year-old male college student, I would generally consider myself to be both spontaneous and a “live in the moment” type person, throwing myself into activities and aspirations with a lack of plans yet a strong hope for success as I merely figure things out as…

Posted by michaelp on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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The Phoenician Women

For our final class field trip of the Maymester, we journeyed to Siracusa, an ancient Sicilian city located in the south eastern part of the island. We spent two nights there, one of which we got to see a Greek tragedy “The Phoenician Women” by Euripides. It is based on the same story as Aeschylus’…

Posted by matthewd on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Trains, planes, and automobiles….and buses and golf carts and boats

This weekend my friends and I journeyed to the motherland of Renaissance art and culture—Florence, Italy.  Between the Uffizi Museum, Medici gardens, the Galileo exhibit, and the David, our time in Firenze, as the Italians call it, was simply unforgettable.  Little did we know that equally unforgettable, would be our overall travel and transportation experience…

Posted by meghan on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Video Tour – Siracusa

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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My Time on a Boat

As I think about what to write for my last blog, I anticipate that it will be less exciting but more contemplative than the others. I want to talk about the free weekend trip that I took with 6 other guys around the Mediterranean and compare it to my time in Sicily. I wasn’t sure…

Posted by chase on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Catacombs in Siracusa

For three days in our last week in Sicily we traveled to the small island port of Siracusa.  A city that was much more prominent in Sicily’s history, it is very large but draws less tourists than Cefalù.  On one of our days there we toured the catacombs, ancient tombs beneath the city.  They were…

Posted by pietro on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Tour: Cathedrals in Monreale & Palermo

Watch my video tour of the cathedrals in Monreale and Palermo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBSL5dKcg2c&feature=youtu.be

Posted by katiep on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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