#isoladellafemmine

Just a few Americans in Sicily • @katermann_ #ChaseBetta @richhomiequinn18 and #Mama & #Nanu • Loving the smiles ❤️🇮🇹❌⭕️❌❗️ . . . #roots #sicily #italy #travel #travelabroad #anamericaninitaly #vacation #reunion #sistercity #familyreunion #isoladellafemmine #palermo

This morning near Palermo, Sicily🇮🇹: A quick view from the peninsula of the town called 'Isola della Femmine'🙋‍♀️ towards the islet with the same name. The etymology of the name of the island itself is based partly on legend and partly on documented facts. One such legend concerns a letter that Pliny the Younger (born 61 or 62 AD), a Roman lawyer🏛️, author and magistrate, was to have written to Emperor Trajan describing a prison for women that he saw on this small island. This legend of a prison appears to have given rise to many variations, possibly the most imaginative being a story that thirteen Turkish maidens, condemned for serious crimes, were set adrift at sea by relatives only to be shipwrecked⚓ on this small rocky island⛱️ where they lived alone for seven years before they were found by their relatives, having had a change of heart. There is word of another legend that, possibly as late as the 19th century, the island was used as a refuge for women and children when a serious disease spread through the village so as to prevent them from being afflicted by the illness☠️. Another possible origin of the name starts with the fact that a structure was erected from the shore of what is now the city of Isola delle Femmine to the small island with a large net stretched across the narrow water passageway with the purpose to catch Bluefin tuna🐬. Legend has it that this structure was given the Arabic name for “mouth” or “entrance” which is pronounced as one would pronounce an English word written as “fim”. This word “fim” was Latinized into “Fimis” and then transformed into a word that sounded like Sicilian 'Fimi'. Oh right, legends & fairy tales! 😊👌 -- #Palermo #BellaItalia #IsolaDellaFemmine #IsolaDellaFemminePalermo #Isola #Islet #PlinyTheYounger #LeperIsland #BlueFinTuna #SicilyTourism #Siciliagram #Sicilia_pics #SiciliaPhotos #Peninsula #DroneShot #DroneGlobe #DronesDaily #DronePhotography #Drohnen #DrohnenBilder #DrohnenAnsicht #drohnenfotografie #drohnenaufnahme #DrohnenBilder #DrohnenFoto (at Isola delle Femmine (isola)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMWnXJHJDw7/?igshid=616nu75ey8ip