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Excursions further up the mountain take you to two medieval fortresses, on foot to Castello di Taormina and, by car along a winding road, to Castelmola, for grand views, although the summit of Etna is almost always swathed in clouds.
Massive fortresses and fortress-like churches testify to the passage of the Normans and then the German emperors in the Middle Ages.
The LAT writes that since the Beirut and Kuwait bombings, more than $1 billion has been spent to upgrade certain embassies to become "state-of-the-art anti-terrorist fortresses."
Yet, the Moorish fortresses along the coast soon came under attack.
On the other side of the peninsula, off the tourist track in the peninsula’s “heel,” are the curiously romantic landscapes of Puglia, from its centuries-old trulli constructions to the medieval fortresses of the German emperors.