The Stories to Live Together are designed for all those who want to experience places feeling at home together with our locals, who want to learn, confront, get involved and become the protagonists of an adventure capable of generating a unique and unrepeatable memorable experience.

These are stories built according to a highly professional experience design discipline, where the keywords are professionalism, method, creativity, empathy, and passion.

Today we would like to introduce you to Saro and his cousins, ​​who will make you live a unique story in contact with the sea and its ancient traditions.

Saro’s cousins ​​live abroad, arrive for the first time in Acireale, and dream of rediscovering their roots, the sea, and the lands they had never seen and meeting relatives they had never met.

Rosario, “Saro” for friends, a tour and environmental guide enthusiast of Etna culture, organizes the meeting with Giuseppe, “Pepè”, the only cousin who has decided to continue the profession of his grandparents and great-grandparents: fishing. It will certainly be an exciting moment even if it will not be easy to understand each other: Pepè only speaks the Sicilian dialect!

Are you ready to learn the ancient secrets of fishing and rediscover your roots?

Saro awaits you at sunset in the square in Acireale, to help you immerse yourself in the Sicilian culture linked to the sea and fishing. He will guide you on a trekking path surrounded by typical Mediterranean nature with a breathtaking view and fishing at sunset will be a truly memorable experience.

Program:

• Meeting with Saro for a sweet Sicilian taste
• Naturalistic trekking on the ancient lava stone path, “Le Chiazzette”, which led fishermen from the center of Acireale to the port of Santa Maria La Scala
• Arrival at the port, meeting with the fishermen and with Pepè, boarding, and navigation
• During the fishing tourism, Pepè will tell about his life, his profession, and all the secrets of squid fishing
• At sunset, squid fishing
• Dinner on the boat and return to the port of Santa Maria La Scala
• Delivery of the Sicilian fisherman’s certificate