The featured image looks across the stage of Taormina’s ancient amphitheatre, through to Mount Etna.
Unsurprisingly, this venue is often described as the most beautiful of all “ancient Greek” theatres.
There is a (Roman) reason for my inverted commas…
More than 2,200 years ago, Greek colonists carved the open-air amphitheatre out of the sublimely-sited hillside on which it stands.
Its seating capacity was remarkably large, its acoustics astonishingly good; all audience members were – and still are – comfortably within earshot of any competent actor.
Roman invaders later modified it, according to their preferred building techniques, aesthetic sense, and their more violent forms of public entertainment.
Pelican Yoga will, eventually, devote one or more posts to the amphitheatre, in its own right.
Suffice, for now, that the columns and red bricks in this post’s photo are definitely not Greek.
Mt Etna is not visible in the next post’s featured image, but Etna provided most of what is visible in it…
(photo is ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 9.52 am, 03 October 2023. Effective focal length was 44mm. Its field of view is a whisker wider than that encompassed by an average human’s naked eyes, and the photo makes Mt Etna look just a tad lower/flatter than it would appear to that human)