Essence of Sicily

In the streets of Burgio there is a slow flow of simple things and traditions that are handed down. The itinerary first leads to the Mother Church and then on to discover the ancient tradition of ceramics and bells.

If you think you knew the city, think again. Each district and alley is the beginning of a story that Marcella recounts with passion. Palermo shines of its own light with its thousand shades that blind and amaze, with its contrasts that surprise and that cultural syncretism that determine its soul.

A landscape that changes, transforms and never ceases to surprise. The salt pans are the extreme border between sea and land and the mills are the signs that identify this part of Sicily. You will always carry the salt crystals with you, like the intense color of this landscape. In this journey, salt becomes the character, with its history, its benefits, its properties.

In the center of Ragusa Ibla there is a place where a tradition that seemed to have disappeared has been brought back to life. This workshop-laboratory in the heart of Ragusa Ibla takes its name from a color, and carry on the art of Sicilian cart painting following the oral tradition learned from the old master cart painters.