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... was that we didn't book in for more than 2 nights. The room is really a small apartment with good cooking facilities and...
Big house, comfy room, the best homemade food in Sicily, stunning views and the greatest hosts ever. Silvia and Bruno have a...
... tour of Sicily. Everything about this place is fabulous. The room was cool, tranquil and perfectly situated -you could smell...
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Write a reviewThe farm is beautiful, the rooms excellent, and the welcome fantastic. Lovely pool and surroundings. Stunning views across olive groves to distant hills. All feels a long long way away from the bustle of nearby Caltanisetta and the motorways. Near fantastic sights like Agrigento and Villa Roman. Sylvia and Bruno are charming hosts who welcome you to their family table each night - don't miss this multi course meal, but remember to have little lunch! Our only complaint was that we didn't book in for more than 2 nights. The room is really a small apartment with good cooking facilities and dishes, pots etc supplied. Amazingly good value for a place with a pool. I was very sad to leave and dive back in to urban Sicily again
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Big house, comfy room, the best homemade food in Sicily, stunning views and the greatest hosts ever. Silvia and Bruno have a wonderful place up the hill in the heart of the island. 10min drive from Caltanisetta and very close frm main tourist spots of Sicily. It's a perfect option if you rent a car and want to have a nice place where to come back for dinner and sleep after busy days out because you will feel like at home or even if you are looking for some peace and quiet relaxing and eat superb sicilian food.
We had a great time at their place, had yummy dinners and enjoyed Silvia and Bruno's company on our dinners too! We just loved it and we are very grateful to them!
PS: we bought some yummy organic pasta to cook at home!
We had a great time at their place, had yummy dinners and enjoyed Silvia and Bruno's company on our dinners too! We just loved it and we are very grateful to them!
PS: we bought some yummy organic pasta to cook at home!
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We spent two nights here, as part of a two week tour of Sicily. Everything about this place is fabulous. The room was cool, tranquil and perfectly situated -you could smell the fresh rosemary when you walked out the door. The pool was brilliant after a hot day of touring the nearby sites, making the location great for accessing the sea and some of Sicily's great historical ruins. Silvia's breakfasts were heavenly, and the dinner she prepared on request was a real, authentic taste of organic Sicily. Azienda Agricola is a proper working farm, so we were able to pick vegetables from Silvia's patch for our lunch, and really feel like we were getting a slice of Sicilian farm life. Perfect for a quiet, relaxing time, as well as brilliantly located for sight seeing. Silvia herself made us feel totally welcome and was really helpful in guiding us and suggesting some great options. A real gem - we'd definitely go back, hopefully for longer!
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nonnogiovanni2014 wrote a review Jun 2014
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A stay at Silvia Sillitti’s home is a unique experience. You are given the opportunity to stay in a very nice apartment in a beautiful house on a very nice property, but Silvia also makes you feel as though you are an invited guest to her home. There is a wonderful large glassed-in room that serves as the breakfast and dinner area but which also serves as their dining room / living room. You are invited to go into that room anytime, and likely you will run into Silvia or her daughter or one of the helpers at any time, either there or anywhere else on their property. You feel like you are living there. And Silvia and her husband Bruno are a very special couple indeed.
Silvia owns the farm where the principal crop is wheat (at least according to my untrained eye), but where clover also is grown, and then there are the olive trees and such. The house sits on a hill with a large deck (for our use and theirs) overlooking half the property (the other half is seen from the pool on the other side of the house). You cannot ask for a nicer place to take your evening ‘passeggiata’. You either can walk within the property or slip out the gated driveway and walk along a small road used only by those who farm in the area. It is a very scenic walk at sunset.
Unless you are traveling with small children, I recommend taking up Silvia on her offer for dinner. Silvia will be dining with you, and usually, Bruno is there as well. Both are serious professionals during the day (Silvia runs this farm which is no small task), and Bruno is in a professional job, but both turn into gracious hosts in the evening. Eating a nice meal in their company, and in the company of the other guests around the family table, makes for very pleasant evenings. Bruno is about as gracious a man as you will meet in Sicilia, and Silvia is the perfect host. Besides getting some travel tips, you also will learn a little about everyday life in Sicily.
Many guests use the farm as a base from which to visit some major sights. They are right off SS122: about an hour West is Agrigento, and about an hour East is the Roman Villa near Piazza Armerina. What I think is less appreciated is the opportunity to experience history right on the farm. The province of Caltanissetta has been producing wheat since antiquity. Central Sicily supplied most of the wheat consumed throughout the Roman Empire and, indeed, Rome took Sicily because it already was a prodigious wheat producing region.
So, in the springtime before the wheat is harvested (it is a winter crop here), go out onto the large deck at Silvia’s: Look out at the sea of beautiful green wheat that covers the rolling hills before your eyes. Imagine thousands of slaves working those fields during Roman times, and think about the lives that were lived right here on this land producing essentially the same crop that you see before you. Thousands of émigrés to the Americas were peasants working these very fields at the end of the 19th century before they left on ships never to return.
I took one of my most memorable drives from Silvia’s farm. Using only back roads, I drove to Serradifalco and then directly north to Villalba then Marianopoli then to Santa Cristina then Resuttano and Alimena (on the Alimena road, you can find the remains of an Arab castle, and also used by the Normans in the middle ages – I promise: you will be the only ones there). What a drive: the roads seemingly were for me alone to use. The rolling hills (think Vermont) covered with green velvet dazzled the eyes. The Madonie mountains to the north are ever present. The abandoned farm buildings dotting the landscape haunt you with thoughts about life that once happened there. The presence of history is everywhere. What a gorgeous land this is in the springtime.
Stop in any of the small towns you encounter in this region. No women are seen – except on balconies hanging their laundry or just outside their flats sweeping the dust away, or buying produce from the old truck that travels up and down the little streets to their front doors. Men only are found in public mostly hanging around at the local coffee shops/ bars chatting away. Everyone notices that there is a ‘forestiero’ walking around their town. They are puzzled and suspicious at the same time. This is how Sicily used to be.
So, take my advice. Go to Sicily. Stay at Silvia’s farm. See the major sights if you must. But if you are there in the Springtime, be sure and take some time to see the glorious beauty of the land that surrounds you, and to appreciate the history that happened here. You can go to a 100 B&B’s and inns to try and duplicate the experience you will have at Silvia Sillitti’s farm and home, but you will never succeed. A memorable stay, to say the least.
Silvia owns the farm where the principal crop is wheat (at least according to my untrained eye), but where clover also is grown, and then there are the olive trees and such. The house sits on a hill with a large deck (for our use and theirs) overlooking half the property (the other half is seen from the pool on the other side of the house). You cannot ask for a nicer place to take your evening ‘passeggiata’. You either can walk within the property or slip out the gated driveway and walk along a small road used only by those who farm in the area. It is a very scenic walk at sunset.
Unless you are traveling with small children, I recommend taking up Silvia on her offer for dinner. Silvia will be dining with you, and usually, Bruno is there as well. Both are serious professionals during the day (Silvia runs this farm which is no small task), and Bruno is in a professional job, but both turn into gracious hosts in the evening. Eating a nice meal in their company, and in the company of the other guests around the family table, makes for very pleasant evenings. Bruno is about as gracious a man as you will meet in Sicilia, and Silvia is the perfect host. Besides getting some travel tips, you also will learn a little about everyday life in Sicily.
Many guests use the farm as a base from which to visit some major sights. They are right off SS122: about an hour West is Agrigento, and about an hour East is the Roman Villa near Piazza Armerina. What I think is less appreciated is the opportunity to experience history right on the farm. The province of Caltanissetta has been producing wheat since antiquity. Central Sicily supplied most of the wheat consumed throughout the Roman Empire and, indeed, Rome took Sicily because it already was a prodigious wheat producing region.
So, in the springtime before the wheat is harvested (it is a winter crop here), go out onto the large deck at Silvia’s: Look out at the sea of beautiful green wheat that covers the rolling hills before your eyes. Imagine thousands of slaves working those fields during Roman times, and think about the lives that were lived right here on this land producing essentially the same crop that you see before you. Thousands of émigrés to the Americas were peasants working these very fields at the end of the 19th century before they left on ships never to return.
I took one of my most memorable drives from Silvia’s farm. Using only back roads, I drove to Serradifalco and then directly north to Villalba then Marianopoli then to Santa Cristina then Resuttano and Alimena (on the Alimena road, you can find the remains of an Arab castle, and also used by the Normans in the middle ages – I promise: you will be the only ones there). What a drive: the roads seemingly were for me alone to use. The rolling hills (think Vermont) covered with green velvet dazzled the eyes. The Madonie mountains to the north are ever present. The abandoned farm buildings dotting the landscape haunt you with thoughts about life that once happened there. The presence of history is everywhere. What a gorgeous land this is in the springtime.
Stop in any of the small towns you encounter in this region. No women are seen – except on balconies hanging their laundry or just outside their flats sweeping the dust away, or buying produce from the old truck that travels up and down the little streets to their front doors. Men only are found in public mostly hanging around at the local coffee shops/ bars chatting away. Everyone notices that there is a ‘forestiero’ walking around their town. They are puzzled and suspicious at the same time. This is how Sicily used to be.
So, take my advice. Go to Sicily. Stay at Silvia’s farm. See the major sights if you must. But if you are there in the Springtime, be sure and take some time to see the glorious beauty of the land that surrounds you, and to appreciate the history that happened here. You can go to a 100 B&B’s and inns to try and duplicate the experience you will have at Silvia Sillitti’s farm and home, but you will never succeed. A memorable stay, to say the least.
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We visited the first week of May 2015. We arrived a little ahead of schedule on a beautiful sunny day. As we waited a short while outside the gated entrance for Bruno to arrive, we rolled the windows down in the car and enjoyed a light breeze, fresh air, the extraordinary view, the song of birds and the stillness of nature. Once Bruno arrived we meandered down the road through olive groves and an almond orchard. Outside the home there is a large pool with lovely plantings surrounding the perimeter, however, we did not use the pool. In May there were rolling green fields as far as the eye could see. Our room and bathroom were large and clean, with lovely views from both. This location is a short distance (maybe 1 1/2 miles) from the highway, but definitely in the countryside. A car is a must, there is no public transportation to this location. From the Azienda Agricola we visited the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento (35 min), Villa Romana di Casale to view the world's oldest best preserved mosaics, Morgantina where we walked through the ruins of an ancient civilization, a short distance from the mosaics. We spent another day driving to the southern coast visiting beaches suggested by Silvi. We visited mid-week, so there were very few people there, it was a warm sunny day, and very relaxing. I use olive oil fairly often, so I especially enjoyed learning so much about it from Silvi. In a good year she harvests 5000 liters of organic olive oil. She explained to me that they pick from 7:00am until 5:00pm, and by 7:00 pm the olives are at the press. Silvi has received recognition from the top olive oil tasters in Italy. We very much enjoyed our visit to Silvi's, as well as to the eastern half of Sicily. The landscape in May is beautiful and green, with unpredictable rocky outcroppings, sprinkled with rock homes long ago vacated and crumbling due to neglect and age, but their beauty, nevertheless, timeless, all the while Mt Etna peering overall. The weather was perfect.
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