Scala dei Turchi, Sicily. The shelf is painted red. 'It has been shamefully desecrated'
Scala dei Turchi is a limestone cliff in southern Sicily. On Friday, in some places, I painted red iron oxide powder. The...
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Scala dei Turchi is a limestone cliff in southern Sicily. On Friday, in some places, I painted red iron oxide powder. The...
Scala dei Turchi is a limestone cliff in southern Sicily. On Friday, in some places, I painted red iron oxide powder. The...
An investigation is under way after the famed white limestone Scala dei Turchi cliff in Sicily was “shamefully defaced” with red powder. The Scala dei Turchi, or Turkish Steps, is one of Italy’s most visited tourist sites and features prominently in the Inspector Montalbano books by the late author Andrea Camilleri. The cliff, which is shaped like a huge staircase jutting into the Mediterranean from the coast of Realmonte in southern Sicily, was vandalized on Friday night. Initial inspections established that the culprits defaced the cliff with red iron oxide powder, a material which is ...