[Monday 18 April 2005]
After breakfast, Gianni, our host, took us in his car and gave a tour first of Scopello, which was once just a small fortified farm overlooking one of the now numerous defunct “tonnaras” (tuna processing plants) and is now a resort community catering to local Palmeritanians getting away for the weekend to northern Europeans on self-catering holidays.
We drove into Castellammare del Golfo, where he was born and raised and worked for many years as a banker. He showed us the highlights of this beautiful seaside community but also the places which figured prominently in his youth as well as where his mother had been born and the building which had at one time housed his father’s furniture factory before he left for the US.
We spent the rest of the day relaxing from our trip and that evening at a local agriturismo.
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| Castellammare del Golfo |
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