Caldo, Caldo, Caldo

Hot, hot and hot - the weather today in Palermo. We toured the Monreale and the Palermo Cathedrals as well as the Cappella Palatina. We then got dropped off in town where we got a bite to eat and wandered the streets. I managed to get 5 donut peaches in a street market for 1 Euro!

Of the churches visited, we preferred the Monreale and the Cappella Palatina for their incredible mosaic work (so you can appreciate the scale, Christ's hand in the Monreale picture below is two metres long). These churches date back to the Middle Ages.

The Monreale:

Monreale interior mosaic:

Statue outside Monreale:

Cloisters and fountain at Monreale:

Capella Palatina interior:

Palermo Cathedral interior:

Market fruits: