SICILY ancient castle outside the town of Siracusa

The next day we were headed for Syracuse, ancient Greek city and home of Persephane—the reason behind the seasons. We stopped first at an old Greek Castle (built 403-397 BC). Again with all the goggle-eyes looks at the size of our family. We impressed them all, and they only had to tell my kids once to get off the top of the castle walls one time (this is because we then turned a corner after which they could no longer see us). Crazy Americans—I guess when you have a large family it isn’t such a big deal to lose one when he falls of the side of the castle wall (they weren’t that high up, and it possibly had something to do with the age of the “climbing wall”, rather than their safety). Eli’s comment shortly after arrival was, “This is the coolest place to climb, ever!”
At first I thought this was going to be a slight let-down since the castle itself was almost completely demolished and seemed to be just a bunch of large stones. But soon we discovered the underside of it all. This was once one of the best-protected castles around. It had 3 seperate moats with tunnels leading in and out of each; there were long and short underground tunnels leading from front to back or inside out; there were blocked off staircases up into the castle that would have been cool to follow. We spent a couple of hours exploring and playing hide-and-scare (it was October 31st afterall).
I think this was one of the boys favorite places on the trip—it was definitely one of mine. Don’t you just hate how pictures just don’t seem to be able to capture the full experience?!