Balconies in Sicily

All photos unless otherwise stated: Per-Erik Skramstad © Wondersofsicily.com

 

Detail of a balcony on Palazzo Nicolaci in Noto.

 

 

Balcony Blues, Agrigento.

 

 

How about a Martini Rosso on the balcony, dear?

 

 

Detail of a corbel below a balcony in Modica showing a lion monster.

 

 

Decorative corbel below a balcony on Palazzo la Rocca in Ragusa: Man with glasses and facial nerve paralysis.

 

 

Grotesque head under the balcony of Palazzo Cosentini (18th century) in Ragusa.

 

Corbel of a head shaped like an ape or a monster. In Noto.

 

Moving scene in Ragusa Ibla: One old woman giving food to another by pushing the food on a plank.

 

 

Balcony in Palermo. Garibaldi was here 27 May 1860.

 

A balcony near Taormina.

 

 

Detail of a balcony on Palazzo Nicolaci in Noto, one of the many elaborate balcony corbels in Noto.

 

 

Detail of a balcony on Palazzo Nicolaci in Noto.

 

 

Baroque balcony on Palazzo Nicolaci in via Nicolaci, Noto.

 

 

 

 

 

Family life under the balcony. Swallows in the seaside-resort Giardini Naxos, near Taormina.

 

Balcony blues in Palermo.

 

Ready for renovation.
Photo: Torild Egge

 

 

Bicycle on the balcony.
Photo: Torild Egge

 

 

Balcony in Bagheria.

 

 

 

Sicilian Sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List

• Agrigento: Archaeological Area of Agrigento (UNESCO)
• Aeolian Islands: Isole Eolie. The group consists of seven islands (Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Stromboli, Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea) and five small islets (Basiluzzo, Dattilo, Lisca Nera, Bottaro and Lisca Bianca) in the vicinity of Panarea. (UNESCO)
• Caltagirone (UNESCO)
• Catania (UNESCO)
• Cefalù Cathedral
• Militello Val di Catania (UNESCO)
• Modica (UNESCO)
• Monreale Cathedral
• Mount Etna (UNESCO)
• Noto (UNESCO)
• Palermo: Palazzo dei Normanni (The Norman Palace)
• Palermo: Cappella Palatina (The Palatine Chapel in the Norman Palace)
• Palermo: Church of San Giovanni degli Eremiti
• Palermo: Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (also known as the Martorana)
• Palermo: Church of San Cataldo
• Palermo: Cathedral of Palermo
• Palermo: The Zisa Palace (La Zisa)
• Palermo: The Cuba Palace (La Cuba)
• Palazzolo Acreide (UNESCO)
• Ragusa (UNESCO)
• Scicli (UNESCO)
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (UNESCO)