Greek Ruins of Sicily: Deleted Scenes Italy 🇮🇹

■ SICILY, ITALY: After spending most of September in the stunning city of Florence I decided to do a tour of the island of Sicily. The island which was once the site of a number of sprawling Greek Colonies is today full of ruins of this incredibly advanced civilization. Most of the columns, temples and amphitheaters you see in this video are 2600 years old!

But before I toured the Greek South and East of this magical Island, I visited the Norman strongholds of the North-West centered around Palermo and Cefalu, starting with King Roger II’s magnificent Palatine Chapel and his grave which is located in a church a few kilometres down the road.

To my amazement, next to Roger II’s coffin was that of one of the most decorated and genealogically blessed rulers of all time, the Grand son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the German side of his family tree and that of King Roger of Sicily on his Norman side, Mr. Stupor Mundi himself (the wonder of the world as he was deemed); Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa II.