{"id":302,"date":"2016-03-24T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=302"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:03:20","slug":"porto-empedocle-montalbano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/porto-empedocle-montalbano\/","title":{"rendered":"Porto Empedocle: Montalbano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_1511-e1458826931341-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1511\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_1511-e1458826931341-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_1511-e1458826931341-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_1511-e1458826931341-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMG_1511-e1458826931341.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On our way out of Porto Empedocle we stopped to see the town&#8217;s statue of the commissario Montalbano, a character from Camilleri&#8217;s novels and a television series, and to have coffee at the character&#8217;s favorite bar. The town of Porto Empedocle plays a large role in the Montalbano films we&#8217;ve seen, and we were excited to see it in person. We took pictures with the statue of the commissioner and admired the artwork in the piazza inspired by Camilleri&#8217;s writing. Our sunny morning in this town was a great way to start one of our biggest days of the trip: the Valle dei Templi, with some of the most important and best preserved Greek temples in Sicily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our way out of Porto Empedocle we stopped to see the town&#8217;s statue of the commissario Montalbano, a character from Camilleri&#8217;s novels and a television series, and to have coffee at the character&#8217;s favorite bar. The town of Porto Empedocle plays a large role in the Montalbano films we&#8217;ve seen, and we were excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicily","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}