One Thousand and One Nights Moon

From the photographer: “The Moon is able to give us wonderful suggestions especially if combined with some enchanting places such as the Arab-Norman cathedral of Cefalù, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The thin scythe, the lights of the ancient village and the cathedral seem to bring us back to the tales of the thousand and one nights … yet we are not in the east, we are in Sicily, a central land in the Mediterranean and historical crucible of the many cultures that have taken place alternating.
This is the reason why the cathedral of Cefalù is part of the UNESCO sites.

Taken from the UNESCO site: “The 12th century Kingdom of the Normans in Sicily was characterized by an exceptional convergence between the cultures that coexisted on the island, that is, Western, Islamic and Byzantine cultures, which gave rise to art and architecture to new concepts of space and decoration. This exchange between cultures generated a unique combination of elements deriving from different techniques, an extraordinary new stylistic syntax that merged Byzantine, Muslim and Roman elements and which contributed to the development of culture throughout the Mediterranean area.

The site, therefore, is the extraordinary testimony of the particular political and cultural condition experienced by Sicily in that period and characterized by a fruitful coexistence of people of different origins and different religions (Muslims, Byzantines, Latins, Jews, Lombards and French) that favored the exchange of human values and the flowering of a lively season of cultural syncretism.

Once again we are faced with a shot that reminds us that we are one people, one culture, under one splendid sky.”

Technical info: Canon 7d, Sigma 150-600mm, f/5.6, iso 800, 0.5 sec.