“There are days when we don't yet know our life is about to change.” It was the first of May, 2002. We had arrived in Sicily almost by chance: Carlo, Cica – our Caribbean dog – and me. We weren't looking for a house. We were looking for a place to start over. It was [...]

"Every project needs a place to start from. Ours began with an empty room and a door open onto Via Nicolaci." When the owner raised the shutter on the space, what stood before us was little more than a storeroom: a plain, almost bare room, with a wooden French door looking out onto Via Nicolaci, [...]

In those first years we explored the whole territory, from the sea to the Iblean highlands. Back then, the coast looked very different from how we know it today. In several stretches, disorderly construction prevailed, and we didn't find the same harmony we felt inland. That's why we turned almost naturally toward the countryside, the [...]

"Trust doesn't arrive suddenly. It arrives when someone decides to entrust you with a piece of their life." The first year was the hardest. We didn't yet know the territory well, and the territory didn't know us. Every day we opened our small office on Via Nicolaci with enthusiasm, but also with a lot of [...]

"The first to arrive weren't looking for luxury. They were looking for authenticity." The first English clients who walked into our office weren't simply buyers. In a way, they were pioneers. They arrived in Sicily after visiting Syracuse and Ortigia, cities that even then were beginning to attract international tourism. But, almost always, their journey [...]

It was 2004. That day we were visiting a property in the countryside inland from Noto. With me were Carlo and a friend. We drove along a long dirt road cut into the rock. The climb was demanding. Along the sides of the road grew nothing but Mediterranean scrub. The higher we climbed, the more [...]