The ruins of Aleister Crowley’s abbey at Cefalù are as described in Chapter Twenty-Eight, right down to “somebody’s Basquiat-like graffito rendition of Crowley’s big bald head”(pictured) that stares down menacingly behind Adelina in the photo shoot.
The abbey’s dissolution under Mussolini is historically accurate.
An unauthorized walk-through, whose trespassing guides are quite as interesting as the abbey, can be seen here.
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