The house welcomes you to a complete landscape that winds between mountains and sea. A large terrace of 50 square meters, shaded for most of the day, ensures an unforgettable view; agrumeto the underlying slides toward the valley and goes back up to Monte S. Onofrio a time of hunting estate of the Marquis Artale; and while your eyes are drawn to the sea has the intuition of Sicily.
Currently the area of Monte S. Onofrio (806 m), which locals call "u Beccu" is inserted in a nature reserve that includes two coastal ridges contiguous: the ridge of the mountains of Calamigna and that of Pizzo Selva at Sea wherein the upstream S. Onofrio part.
All this without giving up connections as the house is located a few minutes from the highway, a few kilometers from the train station, 30 km from Palermo and 60 from Falcone-Borsellino
The house of 100 sq meters is very fresh for both its location and because the area is very windy (hence the name Contrada Serra Scirocco).
It consists of 5 rooms organized as follows:
- Spacious and bright living room with kitchen
- double bedroom
- smaller room for double bed or two single beds
- living room with very comfortable double bed
- newly renovated bathroom accessed from the living room
Since almost all the rooms are very large, there is the possibility of adding extra beds up to a maximum of 8 beds.
SEA
The nearest beach Lido Vetrana, both free and equipped, is just 5 minutes away by car.
There is no shortage of opportunities to reach less-visited beaches such as La tonnara or Pietra flat. A few km away the coast offers unique landscapes like those between Campofelice and Lascari.
you will find still different landscapes characterized by wide and long sandy beaches
The town of Trabia is located in a strategic position that will allow you to quickly reach the most significant destinations of Sicily:
Palermo (30 km) from where ferries leave for Ustica.
Cefalu is located 50 km
Trapani (and ferry to the Egadi) 130 km
Catania and Etna 180 km
Messina and the Aeolian Islands 190 km
Castelbuono and Madonie Park 60 km
Agrigento and its temples 100 km
The archaeological site of Piazza Armerina 135 km
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SOCIAL EATING
To offer an additional service and above all to offer mutual human experience and trends, we are willing to organize meals in our house. We offer a choice of menu of land or sea to accompany you in the knowledge of our renowned culinary traditions; you can enjoy them in a cozy family atmosphere that blends confidentiality, savings and high product quality almost always sourced zero km.
SICILIAN COOKING CLASSES
A BIT OF HISTORY
Around 400 d. c. the mountains of Sicily were covered with extensive forests and the island was rich in wildlife. In S. Onofrio we would have ended in the middle of a thick forest of oaks and cork trees, in the company of wolves, foxes and deer, two steps from the sea. Today the thick forest no longer exists and has given way to the bush often torn apart by the fires. The merit of conservation was instead of the Marquis Artale family, in the sixteenth century, Sicily, also settled in these territories between Altavilla Milicia and Trabia.
The memory of this family remained in the name of the ancient tower and the farmhouse that arise Contrada Sant'Onofrio, now converted into hotel complex. The Artale family, once in possession of this land, made a vast hunting grounds surrounding it with a high solid wall just over two meters; mostly still it exists today and was built to discourage the depletion of the forest. It was also built a "cottage" on the mountain to comfortably accommodate the marquis and their guests. Some of the mammals that were interested in Marquis protect "withdrawals" unauthorized are still present: the hare, rabbits, porcupines and hedgehogs. Among the predators there are still elusive pine marten, weasel, wild cat and fox. Of the wolf, however, it has only the name of the nearby Pizzo Wolf.