IMG_1913 - This River Agra drains hills behind Savoca when it rains hard. Otherwise the water soaks into the limestone bed.
IMG_1920 - Up to Savoca. Arabs brought mulberry bushes and silk worms, resulting in a thriving silk industry.
IMG_1921 - Savoca, where parts of the movie "The Godfather" were filmed.
IMG_1922 - The switch-back road that we came up to Savoca.
IMG_1925 - Bar Vitelli in Savoca as seen in "The Godfather". The real mafia origin, Corleone, had been too modernized.
IMG_1927 - A tribute to Francis Ford Coppola who directed "The Godfather" and brought fame to Savoca.
IMG_1930 - Mt Etna was first active, underwater, 500,000 years ago. Today's shape formed 14,000 years ago.
IMG_1931 - Arab pirates drove Sicilian settlements to the hills from 830 until 1830, when France invaded Algeria.
IMG_1936 - Chiesa di San Nicoḷ/Santa Lucia, filmed in "The Godfather".
IMG_1938 - "Cristo" by Antonino Ucchini.
IMG_1939 - Traditional Sicilian stuccowork.
IMG_1942 - Traditional Sicilian stuccowork.