It is likely that one of these hill towns is Castrogiovanni and the other, nearby Calascibetta. Hunt visited Castrogiovanni in 1925 and again in 1926, the year that the hill town changed it's name to Enna. On this occasion he and his wife Phyllis travelled to Rome by train and then toured south by car, down to Naples and Calabria and across to Sicily, to stay at his friend and art critic, R H Kitson's, villa in Taormina (sketchbooks 16 and 20).
In his 1925 sketchbook Hunt wrote:
'Oct. 18. Lunched Caltanisetta – fine big place – Reached Castrogiovanni about 4. Magnificent scenery all the way. CG a wonderful hill town. Hotel Belvedere good & good view.'
The Albergo Belvedere is still operating in Enna and the view is still stupendous.
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