To Agrigento

Today we travel to Agrigento, stopping at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Villa Romana del Casale along the way.

It was an earlier start, leaving at 8 am. The weather is much better today and we passed by Mt. Etna again. We saw the top without clouds, just the steam emitted from the volcano.

Traffic was bad, so it took nearly three hours to get to Villa Romana del Casale.

We are driving through central Sicily which is an agricutural area. Wheat is a big crop, but the fields are not large due to the terrain.

Some fields are harvested and the straw baled, others are not harvested yet.

Photos from Villa Romana will need lots of panorama stitching. I need to do that on my computer when I get home.

We passed through the village of Piazza Armerina which sits on a hilltop on our way to and from Villa Romana.

After the visit to the villa, we headed for lunch at Gigliotto agrotourism, or what I would call a restaurant at a winery. It was a very pleasant lunch with lots of food on a nice shaded terrace with a slight breeze blowing through.

Agrigento is an agricutural area. There were numerous greenhouses set up that had just been planted. Cherry tomatos are a popular crop for tomato sauce. There is an irrigation line in every greenhouse. The city of Agrigento is currently under water use restrictions as there has been a drought this winter.

We saw the temples from the bus we are going to visit tomorrow as we arrived in Agrigento.

After some time to get the room ready, our tour guide led a short walking tour of the area pointing out restaurants, grocery stores, etc.

After a quick dinner of a shared pizza, we walked half a kilometer down towards the temples on a great sidewalk. The temples were very visible in the light of sunset.