Modica Alta and beyond

Saturday Sept 28th
   We are now in Cinisi (pronounced ChinEC) a little shithole of a town adjacent to the airport in preparation for our 9am flight to Milan.
 The B&B seems to have internet that is running at the speed of sound compared to every other hotel on our trip, so I’ll try to do a quick recap of the last 3 days.
    The town of Modica Was more or less a waste of time- a chocolate tasting and a visit to the Cathedral (Duomo di San Pietro in upper Modica. 
  From there we covered 2 major archaeological sites. The first, Valley of Temples  nesr Agrigento on the south coast and the second, the following morning, Selinunte, some 60 km to the west.
 We reached the former at 6pm, at least an hour later than planned due to the driver’s inability to figure out the shortest route. Almost 1.4 km in length the walking path took us by various ruins, some in better shape than others.
 The most intact ruin here was the Temple of Concordia, reasonably intact and a small remnant of what had been a massive city some 500 years BC

Shown above, the mostly ruined Temple of Hercules and the more intact Temple of Concordia.
The Valley of the Temples is, in fact a site covering several sq. km, much of which was off limits due to current excavations. Time and fading light did not permit much time to explore.
  The ruins of Selinunte were from a similar time period with quite long distances between the dozen or so, Temples, most of which were little more than piles of rubble.
   The site overlooked the ocean, offering some quite impressive views. We travelled by “limo sized” golf carts to reach the various areas, but again, our time was rather limited.



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