Cradle of ancient cultures, territory guarding an immense and precious natural heritage. Extreme border of Italy, the main gateway between two continents: Europe and Africa. It is Pachino, a land sung by Virgil in the Aeneid and by Dante in the Divine Comedy, but which still has so much to tell, which never ceases to amaze those who are furious for the first time. A young city (1760 is the foundation date) whose history is linked to a double plot with the neighboring island of Malta, from which some of the first family units come, and with the Starrabba family: Vincenzo and Gaetano, founders, and the Marquis Antonio, former president of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy and father of Alessandrina, known for having kidnapped Gabriele D'Annunzio's heart. Pachino was also the birthplace of Vitaliano Brancati, an important writer of the 20th century in Italy. Pearl in the middle of the Mediterranean, mother of breathtaking sunsets, good wine, tomato and fish, Pachino is "cradled", on the side of the coast and for 8 kilometers, from the golden beaches of Marzamemi, Cavettone, Vulpiglia, Morghella, on the Ionian coast and Carratois, Punta delle Formiche, Costa dell'Ambra, Tanneries, Scarpitta, Chiappa…

HISTORY OF AN ENCHANTED VILLAGE. Marzamemi is a fishing village distant from Pachino about 3 km of which it is a fraction for half and the other of Noto in the province of Syracuse. The origin of the name is uncertain, some scholars claim that it derives from the Arabic word "Marsà al hamen" which means Baia delle Tortore, as the area is an obligatory place to pass small birds during migration.Some derive it from Marza-Porto, Memi-Piccolo: Piccolo Porto. The village is washed by the Ionian sea and the level is lower than the sea. On the Ionian Sea, you meet the two islets of Marzamemi: the small, on which stands an elegant cottage, owned by the family of Prof. R. Brancati and the large, which forms a curve of entry into the recent port formed by the same islet and by a concrete wall arm, which extends into the sea.The inhabitants of the village were all devoted to fishing, Marzamemi was already well known, since the mid-1600s for the tonnara, which after that of Favignana (Trapani) was the most important in Sicily. The inhabitants who lived permanently in the village of Marzamemi were all dedicated to fishing and boat…