Sicily | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:14:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Sicily | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Wandering through a Deserted Garden in Sicily, I Pray to Build Things Which Last https://anitamathias.com/2013/12/18/bagheria/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:11:47 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=54997 I like wandering around the deserted gardens which sometimes surround palaces and stately homes. I wandered through the Baroque Villa Palagonia in Bagheria Sicily yesterday, whose grounds host massive grotesque gnomes, giants, gargoyles, mutants, and anthropomorphized monsters. The villa was the home of Ferdinand, Prince of Palagonia, a hunchback, who took revenge on his wife’s […]

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