Sicily to discover
A new beginning
For Terradamari Resort
From Cristina Morisi
It was an incoming that had been unfinished, for 40 years on the Mediterranean bank. Now the Terradamari Resort & Spa He prepares for his first summer season as a new jewel of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection. Every environment, from hall At 39 rooms (42 in high season), it has been renewed with local materials, and in the restaurant you taste traditional dishes at zero kilometer.
Particular attention is paid to families with children and residents of nearby Modica, the two beaches, free and equipped, are also available to them, as well as the Spa opened all year round, with swimming pool, Turkish bath, sauna and latest generation aesthetic treatments.
Among the proposed excursionsthe one to the closest cities of the UNESCO Heritage Baroque circuit stands out. Knownthe most famous, always enchants with its “golden street” surrounded by sumptuous rosé churches and buildings, while Modica It is the only one of the centers destroyed by the 1693 earthquake to have been reconstructed on the same high hills on which it still winds today. Renowned cultural pole, it boasts a rich archaeological museum, the castle, the Jewish neighborhood, the birthplace of Salvatore Quasimodo, the lively Garibaldi theater and, a single specialty throughout the Sicilian island, the chocolate. You can discover everything on the production of this food, a legacy of the Spanish domination, in the “Fattojo” that can be visited by ancient Dolceria Bonajuto, where you can also taste Torroni, Marzapani and candied oranges handed down by the ancient Arab presence. For a dinner overlooking the illuminated country, nothing better than the rare restaurant.
In Sciclion the other hand, the itinerary of location of the series of Commissioner Montalbano allows you to discover unpublished corners. From the halls of the municipal building still furnished as a “commissioner of Vigata” to the suggestive ex-tonnara with a sea pointed sea, from the caves of Chiafura, inhabited until the 60s, to the sumptuous Palazzo Beneventano, the territory offers itself to the visitor in all its harshness rich in charm.
For all info: www.terradamari.it; www.visitsicily.info.