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Panormus

Una volta, non molto tempo fa, nelle strade di Palermo risuonavano voci forti e appassionate che si mescolavano al suono di una chitarra e al fruscio della gente che si avvicinava curiosa.

Bastava un angolo di piazza, un cartellone dipinto a mano e una voce calda ed era come se il mondo si fermasse.

Erano i Cantastorie, figure che Palermo conosceva bene, ogni quartiere, dalla Kalsa al Capo, aveva il suo angolo dove questi artisti si fermavano a raccontare.

Non si limitavano a “cantare” storie, le facevano vivere, le sentivi nelle loro voci, nei gesti delle loro mani, negli occhi, narravano di amori perduti, di eroi coraggiosi, di santi e delinquenti, di fatti che erano accaduti davvero o magari no, ma che tutti amavano ascoltare.

https://www.panormus.blog/articoli.php?post=palermo-e-i-cantastorie

#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #arte #art #travel #tourism #tradizioni #popolari #devozioni #canti #cantastorie

Cantastorie a Palermo
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Julia
The views from Erice to Trapani make you drunk. The drive down sobers you up. Win-win.

Trapani to Erice cable car was under construction and we made the climb to the city that sits 2.5K feet above the sea level in our little rented VW. Took a few snapshots from the GPS monitor — to complete the feeling, just add a sheer cliff on one side of a two way road the width of one car and Bernard Herrmann in the background.

Sitting on my hands, looking at my Cary Grant, I was thinking who I resembled most at the time: Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly, or Eva Marie Saint.

#travel #sicily #erice #gps #italy
#italy
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

5 years ago, lockdown in Sicily started.

There were no facemasks, people improvised with what they had, painters masks, scarves, cut up diapers.

Had an illegal BBQ with our friend who got trapped, hauled out alone in a boatyard that shut down and just gave him the gate key but no access to water. He was going crazy, with only Merkel the boatyard dog for company.

Meanwhile our boat started leaking. With no way to haul out I was forced into a very creative repair.

Selfie of a bald guy wearing dark sunglasse on the top of his head and a Raymarine scarf over nose and mouth. He's standing in a queue in a minimally lit hallway outside a supermarket, waiting his turn to be allowed to buy food.
A dog sitting on its hind legs, looking to a point past the camera, ears down and looking somewhat wistful or sad. The scene is a dusty old boatyard with a disused control tower and a traveling lifting basket painted yellow.
A method of sealing a Volvo saildrive from the outside, under water, so its leaking intake seacock in the engine room above can be replaced without lifting the boat out of the water. It is made from things either aboard or available in the supermarket, as all specialty stores were closed. It consists of red plastic broom back that had its bristles pulled out and sawn into two halves, forming two flat red plastic slabs, a cone whittled from a foam cork and two blobs of black butyl tape sealant. It's laid out on a pink cutting board.
A tray of green garden cress sprouting under the windscreen of a boat next to some rope clutches.
#Lockdown#Memories#Sicily
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Panormus

Palermo, le carceri di Palazzo Steri Chiaramonte e il tribunale dell'inquisizione

Stasera su Rai Storia alle 20.30 si parlerà del Carcere di Palazzo Steri, utilizzato dall’inizio del ‘600 alla fine del ‘700 dall’inquisizione spagnola per imprigionare tutti i cittadini scomodi per la vita sociale, politica e soprattutto religiosa, dell’antica città di Palermo.

I graffiti riscoperti, durante il restauro del Palazzo, ci comunicano pensieri e stati d’animo struggenti, che arrivano a noi in modo diretto, opere realizzate nel buio per rimanere nel buio, che ci raccontano il dramma della prigionia più infame, perché spesso ingiusta.

Ne ho parlato sul mio blog:
https://www.panormus.blog/stories.php?key=il-carcere-inquisizione-a-palazzo-chiaramonte-steri

#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #italia #italy #europe #world #picoftheday #picture #image #immagine #photo #photography #fotografia #storia #story #cultura #culture #arte #art #aspassoneltempo #aspassonellastoria #memorie #devozioni #credenze #popolari #tradizioni #castello #palazzo #carceri #inquisizione #dominazione #spagnola

Graffiti realizzati dai prigionieri sulle pareti delle carceri di Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri che un tempo fu il tribunale dell'Inquisizione durante la dominazione spagnola
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