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SPORT FACILITIES
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Beach
Beach Umbrella
Water Sports
Fishing Trips
Art Centre
Guided Tours
Trekking
Visit Messina |
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In the restaurant hall, not only will you taste genuine traditional
dishes,
but you will also enjoy an aesthetic contemplation of a vast array of
international art exhibitions, as this hotel proposes itself as an exclusive contemporary art centre where
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- It is possible to
attend pottery making courses inside the hotel, as well as courses
on Italian language, Italian cuisine, or Sicilian wines.
- You can also do horse riding and go out fishing with local
fishermen.
- Classical music concerts and art exhibitions are very usual in our
hotel.
- Many ancient art and interesting ruins few minutes by car or
train.
- Only at a few kilometers from the hotel you can visit the park of
Fiumara d’Arte, the biggest Regional museum of contemporary
sculptures in Europe. The park, made by Antonio Presti, consists of
an unusual attempt at exhibiting contemporary sculpture in a kind of
open-air museum, that takes advantage of the natural landscape to
arrive at a symbiosis of art and nature and provides interested
visitors an opportunity of exploring secluded and
off-the-beaten-track spots. The monumental sculptures have been
realized by international artists: Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio,
Tano Festa, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Paolo Schiavocampo, Antonio Di Palma
and many others. A very pleasant art walk amidst the Sicilian wild
and picturesque nature.
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Nearby points of interest:
Artworks park of "Fiumara d'Arte" - 2 km
S.Stefano of Camastra - 9 km
Cefalù - 15 km |
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ABOUT THE REGION |
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Founded by the Greeks in the 8th Century BC,
Sicily was an important cultural centre
until its fertile plains became the “bread
basket” of the Roman Empire. After the fall
of Rome, many peoples—the Arabs, Normans,
Germans, Spanish, and French—occupied Sicily
until 1861 when it became part of Italy. It
is the largest island in the Mediterranean basin. Around it lies a number of
smaller islands but Sicily itself boasts around 1.000 Km of coastline,
mostly rocky in the north and sandy in the south. The landscape is varied,
prevalently mountains and hilly, but with an expanse of plains around
Catania. In the eastern part of the island Mount Etna (about 3.330 m) is
Sicily's highest mountain, the whole of which is a protected area within a
national park. Still active, it is the biggest volcano in Europe. Palermo
and Messina are important cities in this island and they are not
far away from the hotel. Messina is a charming city that lies on the far
north-eastern side, on the lower slopes of the Peloritani Mountains. As the
result of a major earthquake in 1908 and repeated bombing during World War
II, it is basically a 20th Century city with few intact monuments. You
should visit the Duomo, which was almost entirely rebuilt after the earthquake of
1908, is a Norman-style cathedral with a façade featuring one-light windows
and a small rose window at the centre. Make sure you visit the Piazza del
Duomo at noon to see the world's largest astronomical clock (orologio
astronomico) come to life with its mechanical figures and music. It has a
60-foot bell-tower and dates back to 1933 when it was built in Strasbourg.
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