Visitors to Sicily find it to be a supremely colourful island and Casa Nunziatina certainly follows the former characteristic, with its gorgeously vivid orange, greens, pink and blues - the burnt orange of its terracotta tiles and bricks, its green varieties of cacti and tropical plants and, of course, the blues of the sky and Ionian Sea. The terrace is perfect for outdoor dining, day or night. It secretly nestles down a narrow, traffic-free, road high in the foothills of Mount Etna on the one side, and that magnificently tranquil view on the other. Around about the town of Nunziata, just 2 km away, has essential shops, banks etc.

Riposto, overlooked by Casa Nunziatina’s terrace, with its port and sea bathing, is 8 km. Note: Being high up,