Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

Traveling through Sicily While studying Latin in Rome, my university took an educational excursion to Sicily to visit the plethora of Greek ruins it has to offer. I was intrigued to learn that southern Italy and the island of Sicily were once referred to as Magna Graecia (Greater Greece) due to its extensive colonization by the Greeks in the 8th century B.C. Sicily boasts of containing more Greek ruins than there are in all of Greece! This photo features the temple to Herakles (Roman equivalent: Hercules) in Agrigento, Sicily. In the words of my Latin professor, ¨I´ve fallen in love with rubble?and that´s what I do!¨