#rosario islands

[neverheardofyoubefore]

#cartagena #colombia #Rosario islands

[strathshepard]

Rosario Resort, Orcas Island, 1920s

#san juan islands #northwest #orcas island #rosario #robert moran #black and white

[badgalbre]

Islas del Rosario 🌴 ⛱️ 🇨🇴

#colombia #carribeanlife #rosario #islands #it's always sunny #sandy beach #magical places

[terrencemalice]

He Got Game (1998) Dir. Spike Lee Cinematography by Ellen Kuras &  Malik Hassan Sayeed

THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GAME.

#spike lee #denzel washington #ray allen #rosario dawson #basketball #coney island #big state #nba #Hill Harper #Ned Beatty #Jim Brown #John Turturro

[vacationguidesblog]

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[mitmama]

Rosario Islands, Colombia

Cartagena | Rosario Islands | Bogota 

Figuring out how to visit the beautiful beaches of Rosario Islands from Cartagena took a bunch of research. But it’s well worth it. 

To save you work, let me explain the options for a beach day trip and how we chose.

Playa Blanca is known for white sand beaches, it’s actually on the peninsula denoted by a star in the middle of the map below.  While the beach is nice, it’s crowded with tourists and vendors. You can get there by boat or by a long bumpy drive.

Island hopping sounds like fun but I read you only get to spend half an hour at each of the 5 stops, and only some of the stops are nice.

Snorkeling trip also sounds like fun, and has 2 stops.  The problem is also that you spend most of the time traveling, and the snorkeling is only so-so if you’ve had good snorkeling elsehwhere.

Speed boat to Isla Grande beach resort is what we chose, and also what was recommended by our hotel (could’ve just listened to them and saved the work. :)  The benefit is you spend only 1h traveling each way and spend 9:30-2 or 3 at the beach resort. Apparently this is more popular with Colombian tourists than the Americans.  So consider this an insider tip. :)

Spending a night or two on an Isla Grande beach resort is another option if you have time. It’s really beautiful there.

For beach resorts, the hotel lady suggested Paue because they offer a boat tour around the island.  This time I wised up and just went with her suggestion. It turned out we’re on a small speed boat for 10 passengers, and it went fast and bumpy from the port on it’s 25 mile journey to Isla Grande.

And it’s just paradise there: beach, water, sun, barely any people...

The boat ride around the island was relaxing and fun. You can see a number of beach resorts and villas.

They pointed out Pablo Escobar’s villa and supposedly a sunken plane, and Shakira’s villa too.  There were vendors selling freshly caught langostino.

Back from the boat trip, we tried paddleboarding and kayaking.

In the water below the dock, there’s actually good snorkeling.  You can see yellow-and-black, purple, red-and-white tropical fish. And my son found a number of crabs in the rocks.

We also had the best meal on our trip here.  My son managed to eat a whole fried fish while my daughter enjoyed flavorful rice with shrimp.

We had to leave at 2pm instead of the originally planned 3pm due to strong wind.  And wow they weren’t kidding. The speedboat was going so fast up and down the waves, I fell down as it was hard to keep up.  My son had a fun time... my daughter and I were very happy to be back in Cartagena.

Next, it’s on to Bogota.

#rosario island #cartagena #colombia #latin america #south america #beach

[rheya28]

Casa Del Rosario [ Filipino Inspired Restaurant ] ♥ The Sims 4: Speed Build // CC

Welcome to Casa Del Rosario, an old Spanish Colonial home turned restaurant that serves authentic and homestyle Filipino dishes from all around the Philippines(Sulani). Whether you are craving something sweet or savoury, a meal cooked by Lolo (Grandpa) Romy at Casa Del Rosario never disappoints and will always put a smile on your face.

Note: The exterior of Casa Del Rosario was very much inspired by Spanish Colonial homes in the Philippines. Although recently renovated, Casa Del Rosario's original architectural character and features remain. The original wood, stone, and ornamentation throughout the building were maintained and acted as inspiration for the rest of the interior. Modern elements, along with furniture pieces made by locals, were introduced to the interior to blend in with the original structure and materiality of the building.

The world of Sulani was chosen as a representation of the Philippines as it shares similar island characteristics and landscape (Especially where I lived as a child). I was hoping to place this build in a heritage town similar to where I lived, but sadly, we do not have that kind of world in the Sims so while Sulani does not accurately depict the environment I had in mind for this build, it is the closest to the Philippines as it was going to get.

DISCLAIMER: As mentioned previously, the exterior of this build was INSPIRED by Filipino Spanish colonial architecture and is by no means accurate! (though I tried really hard to)

Lastly, one of the reasons why I decided to create this build and create this narrative was because I was re-watching @oshinsimss Growing together let's play and was inspired by how she showcases Filipino culture in her game! Her storytelling is what pushed me to create this build and it turned out to be one of my favourites.

♥ Please make sure to turn bb.moveobjects on! ♥ Please DO NOT reupload or claim as your own. ♥ Feel free to tag me if you are using it, I love seeing my build in other peoples save file ♥ Feel free to edit/tweak my builds, but please make sure to credit me as the original creator! ♥ Thank you to all CC Creators ♥ Please let me know if there's any problem with the build!

♥ SPEED BUILD VIDEO 0:02 Intro 0:46 Speed Build 14:02 Photos

♥ LOT DETAILS Lot Name: Casa Del Rosario Lot type: Restaurant Lot size: 30x20 Location: Sulani

♥ MODS: TOOL MOD by TwistedMexi

♥ CC LIST: Awingedllama: Apartment Therapy Sooky: Vertical Oil Paintings (landscape ver) Charly Pancakes: Much, Maple & S Const. Pt 3, Soak Felixandre: Chateau (all), Colonial pt 2 3, Florence pt 1, London Exterior, Paris pt 1, Candelabra, Grove, Paris pt 1, Shop the look Harrie: Brownstone (all), Brutalist, Country, Shop the Look 1 & 2, Spoons pt 1 2 3, Jardane, Kyoto Felixandre x Harrie: Orjanic (all), Kichen, Tiny Twavellers TheClutterCat: Sunny Sundae pt 2 Pierisim: Coldbrew, MCM pt 3, Oak house pt 1 2 3, Unfold, Winter Garden Max20: Poolside lounge pack Charly pancakes x Pierisim: Precious Promises Syboulette: Sandrine Tuds: Cross, Ind

NOTE: i have not uploaded this build in the gallery yet, i will upload it asap

♥Tray File: Available on my Patreon ♥Origin ID: Applez ♥Twitter: Rheya28__ ♥Tiktok: Rheya28__ ♥Patreon: Rheya28 ♥Youtube: Rheya28__

#ts4 #sims 4 #thesims4 #sims #thesims #sims 4 builds #showusyourbuilds #sims 4 cc #builds #sims 4 screenshots #build #the sims 4 build #the sims 4 speed build

[mermaidenmystic]

Sirena Isla del Pirata – mermaid statue near Cartagena in Columbia ~ Isla del Pirata is one of the 30 coral islands forming the Rosario Archipelago

source: Mermaids of Earth

[monkeey-booy]

So here is my take on coral island npc’s surnames! If you have a better idea, feel free to tell meeeeee <3

Luke, Bree, Walter Duckorns (found it on reddit, i believe it’s their official surname)

Pablo, Rafael, Antonio Sanchez

Nina Kluo (took it from the same reddit)

Leah, Randy Barnes (same)

Ling Jiang (reddit saved me)

Betty, Frank, Aaliyah, Noah, Erika Juma (thank you reddit)

Surya Widjojo (reddit is very useful)

Valentina Sanchez-Sinclair

Alice, Suki Sinclair

Dinda, Joko, Archie Oldfield

Kira, Jack, Kenny Shepherd

Mark Atkinson

Anne, Paul, Zoe Woods

Emily, Sam Moore

Eleanor, Sunny, Oliver Wilson (Sunny took Eleanor’s surname where they got married)

Jim, Theo, Lily Ryouno

Wataru, Wakuu Uchiumi

Scott Irwin

Millie Holland

Yuri Del Rosario (since she’s from a surrounding island, i headcanon her from the Philippines, correct me if i got that wrong)

Macy Gray

Raj Rani

Eva Fox

Charles O’Connor

Zarah Qamar

Chaem Hale

Emma, Dippa Monet

Ben Oswald

I used my insomnia and nervous breakdown to make this x) i also wrote a long list of idea to develop my farmer lmao be ready for some lore and doodles

#coral island #coral island headcanons #ramblings #i can’t tag all the npc #so here is a few #coral island rafael #coral island theo #coral island alice #coral island scott #coral island millie #coral island yuri #and that’s it

[fragrantblossoms]

Rosario Mazzeo, American, 1911–1997.  Untitled (Aran Islanders).  

#Rosario Mazzeo #photography #fragrantblossoms

[0rqcles]

𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 - Gwendoline, Glinda, Celeste, Phoebe, Psyche, Ranni, Gwynevere, Rin, Evie, Rosa, Eva, Avery, Ashley, Catrina, Mary, Johanna, Maria, Astrid, Neriah, Bella, Belle,  Delilah, Gabriella, Valentina, Valerie, Venus, Ēostre, Vishali, Alice, Esther, Lynda, Ada, Iris, Daisy, Willow, Aurora, Memoria, Charlotte, Olivia, Emma, Dulcie, Amara, Amala, Claire, Dorothy, Diana, Aesira, Amanda, Maeve, Daphne, Irene, Cassandra, Gaia, Rhea, Cassiopeia, Camilla, Anastasia, Echo, Isis, Cybele, Phaedra, Rhaenyra, Maya, Hippolyte, Malenia, Daenerys, Cersei, Arae, Talia, Edith, Mio, Kyoko, Wanda, Uva, Dia, Usagi, Tsukiyomi, Charlie, Stella, Luna, Erza, Lucy, Verrine, Kali, Tara, Hathor, Anna, Nepthys, Khepra, Amrene, Kate, Jayne, June, Annie, Doris, Madeleine, Magnin, Isabel, Eve, Rose, Rosemary, Sydney, Ophelia, Ana, Amelia, Jasmine, Eliza, Tomoe, Maggie, Jill.

𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 - Marek, Vasper, Oscar, Felix, Ralph, Emory, Azariah, Alexis, Balthazar, Ramses, Shem, Jibri, Mercury, Eos, Namur, Luzbel, Gabriel, Kushim, Ravi, Indira, ba’al, melech, Mikhail, Dimitri, Jeremiah, Dius, Judus, William, James, Azriel, rodon, Ghidorah, Khaleesi, Adam, Adonis, Tyron, Marcus, Daemon, Louis, Jasper, Lestat, Astaroth, Horus, Maleketh, Mikael, Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol, Rebekah, Maacah, Sephtis, Cyrus, Abraham, Shesmu, Stefan, Nitäl, Aiden, An, Belua, Thatos, Gaelio, Eden, Ethan, Marzo, Harkos, Grims, Tyre, Saccharin, Gadreel, Neith, Set, Genos, Eisther, Oberon, Ka’el, Joseph, Hoshiyomi, Emelod, Leto, Thorn, Casimir, Astril, Arkmose, Demephius, Rue, Colin, Luka, Douglas, Mazoth, Nortek, Avalon, Luthinor, Adamas, Indra, Bradnall, Newt, Maul, Percy, Jack.

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 - Meijer, Lugosi, Lee, Boucher, Talmai, Salvatore, Forbes, Avalon, Kaelux, Wong, Wang, Huang, Gyokuto, Choi, Lou, Angelou, Dague, Eliot, Urban, Medina, Graham, Robert, Anderson, Andromina, Dotter, March, Crowley, Ellis, Lockheart, Lovegood, Grendel, Mornings, Armas, Gadot, Bennett, Gozen, Cary, Harper, Ogilvie, Ewing, Rowe, Lackmos.

𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 - Ambrose, The dirge, Cynder, Paraguay, Nowhere, Ember, Tartarus, Valcan, Twilight, The island of no return, Nightmare Vally, Eden, The fallen kingdom, Vally of shattered dreams, Themyscira, Rosario.

#names for characters #long #why did I do this #I guess we’ll never know #i didnt have anything better to do #hope this was helpful

[strathshepard]

Pipe organ at Rosario Resort, Orcas Island

#northwest #san juan islands #orcas island #pipe organ #robert moran #rosario

[veeples]

oc tag game

i got tagged by @lavampira! thank you dani <3 i'll tag: @nerdferatum @magesmiths @lilas and @khiita for this! i'll be using fiona since i've been talking about her with ari anyway <3

name: fiona rosario

nickname: fifi, fi, airhead by her sibling

gender: cis woman

star sign: aries

personality type: terminally in love with life bimbo <3

height: 6'2"

orientation: bisexual

nationality/ethnicity: cuban/japanese-american

favorite fruit: cara cara oranges

favorite season: early summer! before the heat is super oppressive

favorite scent: the sea, baked goods, surfboard wax, wet clay, jasmine

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: black tea with milk but she always drinks cafe cubano first thing in the morning as a habit

average hours of sleep: 5-9 depending on how much she does at night!

dogs or cats: snakes lizards and scorpions! she likes the creepy crawlies most other people don't like :)

dream trip: greece! she really would love to island hop

number of blankets: one thin one! she gets hot at night very easily

random fact: her family line through her mother mostly has a long history of spiritual powers and abilities, but fiona's own is pretty low. she can see and communicate with spirits, but can't do much about them. it doesn't help that ghosts can easily scare her! but she's made friends with some friendly ghosts before :)

#tag game #fiona rosario #oc: fiona rosario #eye........... she got tall for a joke in TWC and now she's just. one of my tall girlies now. #she's in love with life because she's so deeply surrounded by death by the nature of her family <3

[shipwreckedwithcaptainmarrow]

On the 31st of July, 1715, the famous 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet which consisted of eleven or twelve treasure galleons was entirely destroyed by a hurricane off the coast of Spanish La Florida, around 2 a.m. near present day Vero Beach.

The vessels had been carrying over seven million pesos worth of gold and goods from Veracruz when the fleet went down, with two of the ships being lost to open ocean, while the others were crashed into the shallow shoreline up and down the Florida coastline.

The Nuestra Senora de la Carmen was laden with gold bars, doubloons, and silver. An equal amount of wealth was on board the Nuestra Senora del Rosario in 1,000 chests, and the Senora de la Concepcion (also known as Urca de Lima) carried hundreds of chests of coinage as well. The Nuestra Senora de la Regla carried 1,300 chests of nearly three million silver coins, gold coins, chests of uncut emeralds and pearls, and Chinese porcelain.

Over 1,000 sailors would perish from the hurricane, including General Don Juan Esteban de Ubilla, commander of the fleet.

About half of the fleet’s Spanish sailors would survive the incident, and would create a salvage camp upon what is now North Hutchinson Island, and began collecting what treasure they could while waiting for rescue. Aid in the form of food, clothes, and tools came from St. Augustine to the north, sending a relief expedition.

However, news of what transpired spread fast, and many pirates in the Caribbean and along the American coast flocked to the site for the treasure that was ripe for the taking. First on the scene was English privateer Captain Henry Jennings, along with crewmate Charles Vane, in the Bersheba, along with four other vessels.

Jennings had been granted a commission from the governor of Jamaica to “Execute all manner of acts of hostility against pyrates according to the Law of Arms” with instructions to harm no one other than pirates. However, after learning the location of the salvage camp, from a Spanish mail ship, they would ignore their commission's rules and instead lead a ground assault at the still struggling camp - the plunder of which would become Jenning’s call to piratical fame.

(Pictured are multiple 1715 ships caught in a terrible storm at sea [from Black Sails], a 1715 Spanish treasure galleon wrecked onto a Florida beach [from Black Sails], treasure from the plate fleet [these pieces in particular, amid other artifacts, were discovered by diver Christopher James], and the historical marker of the salvage camp in Florida)

#pirate #history #sea #ocean #1715 fleet #treasure #spanish treasure #florida #florida history #pirate history

[hpowellsmith]

Royal Affairs Friends and Romances:

Full name: Prince/Princess/Royal Javi del Quiros of Zaledo

Background: The younger child of King Mateo and King Alejandro of Zaledo, and younger sibling to Rosario. You had a bad first impression at Rosario's wedding. Now Javi's attending Archambault and is your housemate, to their chagrin.

Appearance: Tall and glamorous, with brown skin, golden eyes, and dark curls.

Pet: Silver, an island pony (aka Shetland pony), a butterfly dog (aka papillon), or a kestrel. Silver is lazy, affectionate, deeply adorable and deeply incompetent. Javi adores him.

You'll like Javi if you like... someone who's mean to you, who's a flamboyant theatre kid, who's glamorous, who understands what it's like being royal, who's contrary, who may or may not warm up to you in the end.

Wishlist Royal Affairs on Steam - out March 30!

#javi del quiros #royal affairs #choice of games #interactive fiction #interactive novel #creme de la creme series #amare games #text games #romance games #royal affairs major character intros

[gardenofkore]

Vere novo , priori jam mutato consilio , Alienora virgo regia , insignis facie , sed prudentia & honestate prestantior , futura Regina Sicilie , atque cum ea Nymphe obsequiis apte regalibus , accepta benedictione parentum , ab urbe Neapoli gloriosas discessit , per Calabriam , propter maris tedium , usque Regium iter agens : quam discedentem Neapolitane matres , quantum spectantes oculi capere potuerunt , effusis pre gaudio lacrimis affequute sunt.

Gregorio Rosario, Bibliotheca scriptorum qui res in Sicilia gestas sub Aragonum imperio retulere, I, p.456-457

Eleonora was born in Naples in the summer of 1289 as the tenth child (third daughter) of Carlo II lo Zoppo of Anjou, King of Naples, Count of Anjou and Maine, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, Prince of Achaea, and of Maria of Hungary.

Nothing, in particular, is known about her childhood, which she must have spent with her numerous siblings in the many castles of the Kingdom.

She is first mentioned in a Papal bull dated 1300 in which Boniface VIII annulled the marriage of 10 years-old Eleonora to Philippe de Toucy, Prince of Antioch and Count of Tripoli, (the contract had been signed the year before) on account of the bride’s young age and the fact that family hadn’t asked for the Pope’s dispensation.

Two years later, there were discussions of a match with Sancho, the second son (and later successor) of Jaume II of Majorca, but the engagement never occurred.

Finally, in 1302, Eleonora’s fate was sealed. On August 31st 1302 the Houses of Anjou-Naples and of Barcelona signed the Peace of Caltabellotta, which ended the first part of the War of the Sicilian Vespers and settled (or tried to) the problem of which House should have ruled over Sicily. Following this treaty, the old Norman Kingdom’s territory (disputed between the French and Spanish born ruling houses) was to be divided into two parts, with Messina Strait as the ideal boundary line. The peninsular part, the Kingdom of Sicily, now designed as citra farum (on this side of the farum, meaning the strait, later simply known as the Kingdom of Naples ), and the island of Sicily, renamed the Kingdom of Trinacria, designed as ultra farum (beyond the farum).

The Peace of Caltabellotta stipulated that Angevin troops should evacuate the island, while the Aragonese ones should leave the peninsular part. Foundation of the peace would have been the marriage between princess Eleonora of Anjou and King Federico III (or II) of Sicily (“e la pau fo axi feyta , quel rey Carles lexava la illa de Sicilia al rey Fraderich, que li donava a Lieonor, qui era e es encara de les pus savies chrestianes, e la millor qui el mon fos, si no tant solament madona Blanca, sa germana, regina Darago. E lo rey de Sicilia desemparava li tot quant tenia en Calabria e en tot lo regne: e aço se ferma de cascuna de les parts, e que lentredit ques llevava de Sicilia; si que tot lo regne nach gran goig." in Ramon Muntaner, Crónica catalana, ch. CXCVIII). The pact dictated also that once Federico had died, the two kingdoms would be reunited under the Angevin rule. This clause won’t be fulfilled.

The bridal party had to wait until spring 1303 before setting off for her new country since sea storms had damaged part of the fleet and thus delayed the departure. The voyage had cost 610 ounces, where the Florentine bankers Bardi and Peruzzi were asked to advance the payment, and the groom pledged to repay them 140 ounces.

By May 1303, Eleonora and her companions arrived in Messina where she was warmly welcomed and where on Pentecost, May 26th, of the same year she got married to Federico in Messina’s Cathedral (“E a poch de temps lo rey Carles trames madona la infanta molt honrradament a Macina, hon fo lo senyor rey Fraderich, qui la reebe ab gran solemnitat. E aqui a Macina, a la sgleya de madona sancta Maria la Nova, ell la pres per muller e aquell dia fo llevat lentredit per lola la terra de Sicilia per un llegat del Papa, qui era archebisbe, que hi vench de part del Papa, e foren perdonats a tot hom tots los pe cats quen la guerra haguessen feyts: e aquell dia fo posada corona en lesta a madona la regina de Sicilia, e fo la festa la major a Macina que hanch si faes.” in Ramon Muntaner, Crónica catalana, ch. CXCVIII).

After the wedding, most of the bridal party returned to Naples, while the newlyweds proceeded to Palermo.

On July 14th 1305 Eleonora gave birth to the heir, who was called Pietro in honour of the child’s paternal grandfather, Pere III of Aragon. To celebrate his son’s birth, Federico III gifted his bride of Avola castle and the surrounding land, to which will be added the city of Siracusa (in 1314), Lentini, Mineo, Vizzini, Paternò, Castiglione, Francavilla and the farmhouses in Val di Stefano di Briga. This gift would mark the creation of the Camera reginale, which would become the traditional wedding present given to Sicilian Queen consorts, and eventually would be abolished in 1537.

Including Pietro, she would give birth to nine children: Costanza (1304 – post 1344), future Queen consort of Cyprus, Armenia and Princess consort of Antiochia; Ruggero (born circa in 1305 - ?) who would die young; Manfredi (1306-1317) first among his brothers to hold the title of Duke of Athens and Neopatras; Isabella (1310-1349) Duchess consort of Bavaria; Guglielmo (1312-1338) Prince of Taranto and heir to the Duchy of Athens and Neopatras following the death of his brother; Giovanni (1317-1348) Duke of Randazzo, Count of Malta, later also Duke of Athens and Neopatras and Regent of Sicily; Caterina (1320-1342) Abbess of St. Claire Nunnery in Messina; Margherita (1331-1377) Countess Palatine consort of the Rhine.

Through these donations Eleonora became a full-fledged vassal, and had to pay homage to her husband the King. Thanks to official documents, we get the idea that Eleonora tried to manage her lands as much personally as she could do, naming herself vicars, administrators, and granting tariff reductions. Federico indulged his wife as much as he could, although in some cases (like the management of the city of Siracusa) his will was the only one taken into account.

Despite almost every time she was unsuccessful, Eleonora fully embraced her role as mediator between the Aragonese and Angevins. For example, in 1312 her brother-in-law, King Jaume II of Aragon, asked her to dissuade her husband (Jaume’s brother) to ally himself with the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VII of Luxembourg since this alliance could generate new friction with the Angevin Kingdom, as well as with the Papacy (with the risk of stalling the Aragonese occupation of Sardinia). After the King of Aragon, it was Pope Clemente’s turn to ask Eleonora to convince Federico to make peace with Roberto of Anjou. In both cases, though, her conciliatory efforts didn’t work.

In 1321 she witnessed her son Pietro being associated to the throne and thus crowned in Palermo (“Anno domini millesimo tricentesimo vicesimo primo, dum Johannes Romanus Pontifex contra Fridericum Regem, & Siculos propter invasionem bonorum Ecclesiarum precipue fulminaret, Fridericus Rex primogenitum suum Petrum, convenientibus Siculis, coronavit in Regem, & patris obitum, inopinatum premetuens, & ut filius qui purus videbatur & simplex, ab adoloscentia regnare cum patre affuesceret patrisque regnando vestigiis inhereret […]” in Gregorio Rosario, Bibliotheca scriptorum ..., I, p. 482). Pietro’s coronation publicly violated the Treaty of Caltabellotta (as the Kingdom should have returned to the House of Anjou), causing the pursuing of warfare between Naples and Palermo. Once again Eleonora’s attempts at peace-making failed miserably, with her nephew, Carlo Duke of Calabria, refusing to even meet her in 1325, after he had successfully raided the outskirts of Messina.

The Queen didn’t have much luck in internal policy too as she failed to appease her husband and her protegé, Giovanni II Chiaramonte. After gravely wounding Count Francesco I Ventimiglia of Geraci (his brother-in-law and one of the King’s trustees), all that Eleonora could do was advise Chiaramonte to flee to avoid the death penalty.

Nevertheless, the Pope still hoped to use the Queen (who, at that time and alone in her Kingdom,  was exempted from the Papal interdict) as mediator with her husband, promising to lift the excommunication in exchange for Federico’s backing down. Once again nothing happened.

On June 25th 1337 Federico III died near Paternò. He was buried in Catania since it was too hot for the body to be transported to Palermo (“Feretrum humeris nobiliores efferunt. Adsunt Regii filii, proceresque Regni. Exequias Regina, illustribus comitata matronis, prosequitur.” in Francesco Testa, De vita, et rebus gestis Federici 2. Siciliæ Regis, p.225). After the death of her husband, the now Dowager Queen turned to religion, following the example of those in her family who had consecrated themself to Christ (“At Heleonora certiorem fe de illa consolandi rationem inivit. Ipsa enim , ut Rex excessit e vita, ei, qui omnis consolationis fons est, fese in Virginum collegio Franciscanæ familiæ Catinæ devovit; in hoc Catharinan , & Margaritam filias imitata, quæ in ætatis flore, falsis terrestribus, contemptis bonis, Christ, cui fervire regnare est, in sacrarum Virginum Messanensi Collegio, de Basicò dicto, ejusdem Franciscanæ familiæ fese consecrarant; quod Collegium posteaquam Catharina fancte gubernavit, sanctitatis opinione commendata deceffit” in Francesco Testa, De vita..., p.226).

If Eleonora might have hoped to exert some kind of influence as many other Queen mothers did in the past and would do in the future over their weak-willed royal children, she would soon realize she had a powerful rival in the new Queen consort, her daughter-in-law, Elisabetta of Carinthia. Like Eleonora, the new Queen supported the Latin faction (a group of Sicilian noblemen who opposed the Aragonese rulership over Sicily, hoping the island would be returned under the influence of the Angevins instead). But, while Elisabetta had managed to raise the Palizzis to the highest positions at court, her mother-in-law still supported the Chiaramonte, making it possible for the exiled Giovanni II to return to Sicily, be pardoned by the King and see all his goods be returned. Soon though Chiaramonte resumed his personal feud against the Ventimiglia (also part of the Latin faction) and once again Eleonora's attempt to bring peace failed miserably. Only through Grand Justiciar Blasco II d'Alagona's intervetion, the crisis was averted.

In 1340, the Dowager Queen made a last attempt to appease the new Pope, Benedict XII. Unfortunately, the Sicilian envoys sent to Avignon to take an oath of vassalage (since Norman times Sicily theoretically belonged to the Papacy, who granted it to the Sovereigns who acted as Papal Legates) were treated roughly by the Pope, who declared Roberto of Anjou (Eleonora's brother) as Sicily's legitimate King.

Deeply distraught, the Dowager Queen resolved to definitely retire from public life. She spent what it remained on her life visiting the monastery of San Nicolo' d'Arena (Catania), joining the monks in their religious life. She died in one of the monastery's cells on August 10th 1341. Her body would be buried in the Church of San Francesco d'Assisi all'Immacolata (Catania), the construction of which she had personally promoted in 1329 to thank the Virgin Mary for protecting the city from one of many Mount Etna's eruptions.

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