On the way to Palermo, and the rest of our four day trip around Sicily, we took an excursion to Tindari. Tindari is a site in northern Sicily, that has very nice mosaics. We parked our rented car in the parking lot, and took a bus to where the site was. There were a lot of tourist souvenier shops and we walked through those to get to the site. 
The site was really cool, there was a museum right when you walked in. In the musem there were some statues of people, and their togas looked like they were swishing in the wind, because they were really ripply, even though they were made out of marble.
There were a lot of mosaics and they were super nice. This is one of them. The mosaics were from a bath complex. One of them had the Sicily symbol, which is a three legged person, all with their knees down, making sort of a pinwheel shape. The legs stood for the main cultures of Sicily, the Phoenician, the Greek and the Roman. Then there was also a big mosaic floor that had a picture of two brothers wrestling, some dolphins, Dionysius and other things. 
It is good that Sicily allowed all three cultures to be free, and even entwined them together as a symbol of their country. Your pictures of the marble material are amazing. When you touch it you think it would be soft and warm and instead it is cold and hard.
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