Antica Dimora San Girolamo

The “Ancient Saint Girolamo Residence“, located into the heart of the seafaring neighbourhood “La Marina”, in the homonymous little square, where joy can still breathe the same atmosphere of the ancient alleys, which have always been the background of popular funny accidents. Along the alleys, you could see the wives, the “comari”, sitting outside their house doors, busy with embroidering, with saying their rosary, or boostling about everyday housework, while waiting for their husbands to come back from fishing. Scents, sounds, colours, bring our mind back to old times we haven’t known, but which are stilla live in those little houses history. At the “Ancient Saint Girolamo Residence“ you will be welcome in the typical atmosphere of the ancient houses, whose characteristic have been maintained and reproduced by the use of specific materials and colors. The structural elements of roofs and galleries, made of wood and irons, have been left visibile in order to allow people see the building methodology of the past. The warm atmosphere of the ancient Sicilian houses i salso present in the forniture. If you are fond of fishing, you can practice your hobby, at a walking distance from the residence, in a peaceful and undisturbed atmosphere. In additino, every day you can watch the traditional selling of fishes on the quay of the bigger harbor.