Palazza
Conte Federico
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PALAZZO
CONTE FEDERICO
Sicily
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GALA
EVENING IN COUNT FEDERICO'S PALACE
Count
Federico receives his guests in his torch-lit palace and escorts them
into the state-rooms. With a glass of champagne in their hands they
stroll through the various halls - not as participants of a guided tour
but as guests of the Federico family who takes them back into past centuries,
thus reminding them of gorgeous parties of the old Sicilian nobility.
Walking
up a steep staircase visitors reach the oldest part of the palace, the
Arabic-Norman tower, dating back to the 12th century. Flickering candlelight
streams from the double-arched Norman windows. It is here that a traditional
Palermitan cocktail is served.
Count
Federico and his family lay much stress on maintaining the old Sicilian
kitchen. In the course of the centuries the art of cooking and gastronomy
as a whole have been influenced by the various foreign occupant cultures
and so, even today, we find recipes originating in the Arabic or French
kitchen. Sicily's rich nature adds much to these different influences:
the sea is abounding in fish as hardly anywhere else, the sun allows
the best wines to ripen and all the year round fresh fruits and delicious
vegetables are grown. "Do you know the country where lemons blossom?"
Goethe knew what was meant by those words.
After
the apéritif the guests are shown into the Baroque dance-hall.
Under Gaspare Serenario's fresco the tables are royally laid and invite
the guests to sit down for the dinner-concert.
In
Count Federico's family music plays a great role. No other setting could
be more appropriate for classical music than this venerable place. For
evening parties of this kind, however, a cheerful program was chosen:
First-class singers – amongst them the Countess, soprano from
Salzburg - entertain the guests between the different courses of the
gorgeous meal ad perform songs of the finest operettas and thrilling
Neapolitan melodies.
At
the dinner guests enjoy delicious Sicilian wines.
After
the concert, the guests may move to the different halls to spend the
late evening hours like the Sicilian "Gattopardi", sipping
their digestive, chatting and discussing things with their friends.
Lovers of music may strike a few keys on a piano on with Richard Wagner
has played, others may retreat to a silent saloon to enjoy the serene
mood of the old palace.
Thus
the little feast in Count Federico's palace will end harmoniously and
peacefully and the master of the house hopes his guests will take home
a lasting memory of this evening.
Suggested Menu - A
PROPOSTE DI MENU TIPO A
Menu
no. 1
Aperitivo della casa - Spumante e Zibibbo secco
di Pantelleria
Pannelle, crocché, bruschette e verdurine
in pastella
****
Antipasto del Ghiottone:
Manzo, petto d'oca e porcellino affumicati su
rughetta
****
Risotto al limone in crosta di mandorle
Bucatini avvolti nelle melanzane
****
Scaloppine al Marsala
Zucchine gratinate e patate al rosmarino
****
Cannolicchi e dolcetti tipici
Frutta fresca
Menu
no. 2
Aperitivo della casa - Spumante e Zibibbo secco
di Pantelleria
Pannelle, crocché, bruschette e verdurine
in pastella
****
Pesce spada, gamberetti e alici marinati con
rughetta
****
Risotto con gamberetti, spinaci e curry
Farfalle alla Nelson
****
Pesce spada all'arancio
Patate a vapore e carciofo alla contadina
****
Cassata siciliana
Frutta fresca
I vini delle migliori cantine siciliane
Acqua minerale, liquori tipici siciliani
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WESTERN
SICILY - General info : & History /Description
Trapani’s
region is the most “African” strip of the island and yet
the most Sicilian among all Sicilian environments, the most Arabic region,
since more than all others, has saved traces of presence of North African
people, which are better identified in the architecture, in the gastronomy
and even in some unusual dialectal inflexions.
It is nto too large, but capable to arouse high interest in each visitor.
Its richness is constituted primarily by its archeological ruins: here
in fact we can find the remains of many Greek and Punic settlements.
In addition, the area offers a splendid natural environment with its
large golden beaches and dark cliffs jumping in a blue sea, and hills
where palms, wild olives, brooms, lentisks and big tufts of euphorbia
stand up; the area is also characterized by uses, costumes and popular
traditions that culminate on to mystic manifestations of the Holy Week,
going through the celebrations of patron saints, performances and cultural
events such as the Orestiadi of Gibellina and classic performances.
There is plenty to choose from. How could we not talking for example
about the Reserve of Zingaro or the sea of S. Vito lo Capo, crystalline
as a tropical atoll? Or about the magic Egadi islands, Favignana, Levanzo
e Marettimo, three splendid jewels on the sea off Trapani, or about
Pantelleria, rough yet fascinating, where beauty, cultures, myths and
Mediterranean fragrances are concentrated. Or how we couldn’t
talk about the shot saltpans in Trapani and surrounding, or about Mozia
island, reachable by foot during the low tide or by boat, place of a
museum entirely dedicated to Phoenician culture? How we couldn’t
describe Erice, beautiful medieval frame place of a scientific culture
center. Or how we couldn’t advice you that, behind that corner.
you could find the miracle of Segesta temple?
LAND
OF HISTORY, ARCHEOLOGY, MYTHS AND NATURE
Trapani. Situated on top of a strip of land that goes into the sea,
bounded by Mont Erice and by a long line of salt marsh, Trapani is a
very animated city. The ideal seasons for visiting it and enjoying its
beauties are springtime and summer. The Place of the Giudecca, dated
back on sixteenth century, the Pilati House of the fourteenth century,
the Saturn Fountain of the end of the fifteenth century, and the Baroque
Xirinda Palace all witness its glorious past.
Leaving Trapani going toward North we find Erice. Situated on top of
San Giuliano Mountain, in a splendid position facing the sea and Trapani,
Erice is a place where myth, archeology and nature are intertwined and
create a mysterious atmosphere of sensuality.
The city is protected by city walls dated back to the Punic period that
connect the
Norman Castle, the Dome and the Spanish town, while the historical center,
typically medieval, is constituted by small squares, narrow and curved
paths where beautiful yards full of flowers open onto which, and where
every summer internationally renowned artist play music.
Erice is not only a past: there is in fact one the most important scientific
center of Italy, the Ettore Maiorana Center. Going back to the coast
side toward North, the beach of San Vito Lo Capo displays itself in
the extreme point called by the same name. It is a village that has
an ancient seafaring tradition and has grown around the ancient Saracen
fort, which was eventually transformed into a Sanctuary dedicated to
San Vito. Its climate, its sea, the paths adorned by flowers, its intense
fragrances and its landscape offer an opportunity for an unforgettable
vacation. Another unbelievably beautiful place is the Natural Oriented
Reserve of the Zingaro. In this area, one the most uncontaminated of
the Mediterranan sea, tens of species of birds in danger of extinction
build their nest. In the middle of the Reserve, the prehistorical grotto
of Uzzo witnesses the first human settlement of the area. Continuing
along the coast we first meet Scopello, with its old tunny-fishing net,
that faces the splendid stacks, the white beach of small stones of Guidaloca
Bay, then Castellamare del Golfo.
Returning
to the inland, Alcamo is worth the stop: here we can admire its Castle
of the Lords of Modica, The Mother Church, the splendid Church of Saints
Paolo and Bartolomeo and the Basilica; we can test also the renowned
white wine doc of Alcamo. Finally Segesta, castled on top of Mont Barbaro,
offers two spectacular monuments: the Doric temple and the amphitheater.
The great temple dated back to fifth century b.C., perfectly maintained,
stands alone in the middle of a suggestive valley. On the contrary,
the Greek amphitheater is situated on the highest pick of Mont Barbaro.
This jewelry, hollow on the mountain, like suspended on the air, open
onto the Gulf of Castellamare, is a stage of theatrical performances,
which are been organized by the Touristy Development Agency for the
Trapani Region. Distant a few kilometers from Segesta, we find Calatafimi,
an ancient Arabic village, famous for the historical battle between
Bourbons and the Garibaldi’s army on 1860. Going toward South,
we enter the Valley of Belice, deeply marked on 1968 by an earthquake
that, in addition to having been destroyed the entire old town of Gibellina,
had risked erasing forever history, culture and values of one people.
The rebuilding of a New Gibellina allowed to safe its former tradition
and to draw a cultural path for the future. You can access the town
by going through the sculpture of the Consagra’s Star and all
of sudden you can see your self in a like virtual environment, which
includes the Systems of Squares, the Church and the futuristic masterpieces
at each street’s corner, the remodeled Lorenzo’s Palace,
the beam of Stefano’s houses, and the Cretto where every year
they play the Oresteia of Gibellina. On the other side, castled on Rosa’s
Mont, Salemi offers to its visitors the Norman Castle, the Baroque Matrix,
the complex of Jesuit Church and Convent, in addition to the colorful
and artistic celebration of Saint Joseph’s Dinners.
Going
further South, after we pass Castelvetrano with its historical center
rich of palaces and churches in a renaissance mixed with Catalan Baroque
style, among which Mother Church and Trinity of Delia stand out, we
finally arrive to Selinunte and its Ruins of Gods. Situated in a flat
area at 30 meters above the level of sea, there is Selinunte, whose
name derives from selinon, which is wild parsley. It is special because
it includes a large quantity of great and valuable ruins, which constitute
an archeological park large 270 hectares. Here there are the Acropolis,
the Eastern Hill and the Plateau of Land Manuzza, the Sanctuary of the
Malophorus of land Gaggera, and two Necropolis of Manicalunga and Galera
Bagliazzo. What amazes the visitors is the opportunity of walking out
of the time between stones and sky, pieces of columns and blocks of
golden-yellow stones and a wild nature rich of small hedges, bushes
of flowers, and some glades spotted by a few trees. Not too far from
Selinunte, toward Castelvetrano, we can visit the quarries of Cusa,
the most suggestive natural factory of construction materials dated
back to the Greek period. Returning up to North, passing Mazara del
Vallo and Petrosino, we reach Marsala. Rich of Punic, Roman, Norman,
Arabic and Spanish remains –the Necropolis, the Roman Villa, the
Christian Baptistery and the rest of a boundary wall, which has had
made by Roger I- Marsala offers to its visitors also the Dome, the Archeological
Museum of Anselmi’s Beam containing a Punic Ship dated back to
the second century b.C., the wineries of the homonymous wine and the
Beams, typical building where on the eighteen century they used to make
and store wine. Returning up toward Trapani, we meet another typical
aspect of this land: the saltpans. This is a land where sea mingles
with a land, spotted by a lot of mills, that includes many Natural Reserves
such as that of Stagnone in Marsala, of Saltpan in Trapani and Paceco,
true heavens for bird watchers.
Here
Mozia stands up, 40 hectares of history suspended on the sea that, together
with the Long Island and the Island of Saint Mary and of Schola, constitutes
the greatest lagoon of Sicily. Connected with the coast by a flooded
road, which has been used until today during the low tide by carts drowned
by mules, Mozia was brought to light on 1875 thanks to the excavations
of Giuseppe Whitaker. Here, among other many Phoenician finds, the Giovinetto
(boy) of Mozia was found. This marble life-size statue, found on 1979,
is a true masterpiece, one the most magnificent jewelries in the archeological
Sicilian panorama. Just in front of Mozia, the Egadi islands arise on
the sea like three jewels set in the Mediterranean sea: Favignana, Levanzo
and Marettimo. The entire archipelago is a Marine Natural Reserve, which
is a true heaven for scuba drivers and offers an unique and unforgettable
scenario.
Thank
to the limpid water sea, we can admire incredible sea beds rich of various
colors and shapes, just a few meters from the coast. However, the Egadi
islands are not only sea: it is also a place for people who love green,
botany and relaxing and exciting vacations with a full immersion in
an uncontaminated environment. We end this itinerary of Trapani region
by speaking about Pantelleria, a rough and fascinating island where
Mediterranean beauties, cultures, myths and fragrances blend together.
It offers to the lovers of sea all its wild beauty, its volcanic morphology,
its hot springs and “Favare”, jets of steam that create
natural sauna inside the grottos, and its shores rich of indents and
points, and of coves dominated by steep rocks. Here, inside two tanks
of the Acropolis of Cossyra, they found three marble heads dated back
to the Roman period. They are the portraits of Julius Cesar, of a woman,
probably Antonia Minor, and of Emperor Titus, son of Vespasian.
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