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| The last of several windmills in the area. | ||
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| The archaeology has been protected from vandals... | ||
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| ...but it is difficult to see. | ||
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| C6th Byzantine church; in the distance, S.Michele Archangelo. | ||
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| Madonna della Catena is built over a Roman thermal baths. | ||
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| The archaeology of the area identifies Greek, Roman and Norman fortifications. | ||
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| The site of an Hellenistic cemetery with 113 burials and 28 cremations from between C4th & C2nd BC | ||
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| The monastery of S. Michele was built in the C18th... | ||
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| ...to house the expanding number of monks... | ||
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| ...from the then 600 year old original building. | ||
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| The original monastery of S.Michele Arcangelo was established soon after the Norman conquest. | ||
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| It was here that S.Silvestro lived. | ||
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| Although damaged during the earthquakes of C17th its use continued until the mid C18th when the monks moved to the larger new monastery. | ||
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| One of the monastery gates. | ||
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| An unidentified motif. | ||
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| A mediaeval grain silo. | ||
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| Some 10km SE of Troina, a grandious arch... | ||
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| ...leads into a spaceous courtyard and... | ||
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| ...the noble Casa Sollima, built around 1700. | ||
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| ...the Kitchen for food preparation for the estate workers. | ||
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| The principle salon opens to a winde terrace. | ||
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