The farm holiday "San Giovannello" is situated in the country-side around Villarosa in the province of Enna.
It is at about 500 mt above the sea level and is 75 hectares large - wheat, olives, almond trees and vines are grown. The landscape is varied: plains are interrupted by hills up to the horizon, streams flow towards the river Salso which bounds the estate.

As the farm is about 13 km from the juction of Ponte Cinque Archi of the motorway Palermo - Catania, it is placed in the middle of Sicily where the provinces of Enna, Caltanissetta and Palermo border. Therefore it is a place from which is particulary easy to reach not only the main historical - cultural centers of the island, but also places which are not included among the usual tours of foreign tourists, such as the salt mine and the Spaniard quarter in Petralia Soprana, the castle of Sperlinga, Gangi, Nicosia famous for the painted wooden ceiling of its cathedral, unique in Europe and so on.

At present the farm, managed by Pietro La Placa and his family, is a part of an old feud of the Barons Bartoccelli d'Altamira, Grandees of Spain, whom Pietro comes from matrilinearly.
The feud was preserved undivided up to the early 20th century when, repealed the Salic law on the right of primogeniture, it was divided among the heirs. In the past the farm was also thriving thanks to a sulfur mine closed in the fifties when American sulfur invaded the European market. The site is important because in a relatively limited space it is possible to visit the different kinds of furnace used over the centuries for mining the ore.

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