the land

A car is necessary! You will need a practical car, a normal saloon car is more than adequate, which can take the local country roads: often very winding, some are not tarmacked and/or quite potholed. 

Here are just a few sites reachable within a leisurely one hour’s drive: Segesta, Castellammare, Scopello, Salemi, Lo Zingaro nature reserve, San Vito Lo Capo, Selinunte and the Cave di Cusa, the remains of Phenician Mozia (Mothya), The Stagnone nature reserve, Marsala, the Dancing Satire of Mazara del Vallo, The medieval town of Erice, Trapani and the Egadi Islands, Palermo and The famous Arab-Norman mosaics of Monreale.

The local Town of Calatafimi, counts just fewer than 6,000 inhabitants and is very good for stocking up on local provisions, offering a good choice of local food shops such as butchers, bakers, green grocers as well as small supermarkets and, for those of you with a sweet tooth, typical Sicilian cake shops “pasticcerie” and ice cream shops “gelaterie”. It is famous in Italy for being “the theatre of Garibaldi’s first victory in over the Bourbons troops of Naples in 1860 on his triumphant march to forge the Unification of Italy”.

Amenitites:

Lily pond

Vegetable garden

Fruit orchard

Seating