Cefalu holiday villa letting with beach/lake nearby, TV

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Cala Pietra (villa)

Home description

A very charming and romantic little house built in stone and leaning against a granite rock. It is surrounded by a flourishing Mediterranean garden. The house is fully immersed in vegetation and also because of its large stone walls it is very cool also during the hottest summer days. The area is very isolated and quiet. Inside there are a living-room with a fire-place and a dinner table, a small kitchen; on the attic floor there is a master bedroom and a very nice wooden bathroom. The two sofas in the living-room may, eventually, be easily transformed into beds.

the house	the quiet beach below the house
the living-room	the garden

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The Sicily region

Sicily offers to the visitor a unique and unforgettable scenery made of big and small bays, promontories, steep cliffs, coves, sand dunes, granite rocks, wild islands, sun-burned countryside, natural parks and reserves, gorges hollowed by rivers, marine and land grottoes, tuff quarries… The shores and sea of Sicily are astonishing: very fine white sand beaches alternate at red cliffs, white promontories, desert dunes; it is easy to come across old and charming tuna-fisheries or small fisher-men villages surrounded by a blue or emerald green sea. The vegetation in Sicily is amazing: palms, olive trees, vineyards, orange and lemon trees, pine trees, carobs, oleanders and bougainvilleas grow all along the coast, while on mountain slopes and on inaccessible volcanoes are woods of chestnuts, beech, oaks, hazelnuts, fir trees and holm oaks. But Sicily gives you also the opportunity to know its culture and its traditions gathered through centuries of history and under different foreign dominations. Ancient customs, popular feasts, holy processions and gastronomic delights are waiting for you on every corner of the island. You may rediscover its thousands years old history through the architecture of churches, buildings and monuments, through the old arts and crafts and in the various tastes of Sicilian dishes. Wherever you go you will find traces of the island’s glorious past: Palaeolithic grottoes, Roman villas, Greek temples, Benedictine monasteries, Norman towers, Punic ships, Medieval castles, Arab mosques, Baroque churches, Art Nouveau buildings and a warm and a sincere hospitality.

Cefalu area

Cefalù deserves a place of honour among all the towns of the Madonie Moutains, and also compared to the other coastal towns. The reason why is in the fact that this small town is breathtaking from any side one looks at it: for the beauty of the Rocca, the marvellous position it stands on, for its narrow cobbled roads full of small shops and restaurants, for the amazing beauty of its sea and beaches, but also because it still maintains the old aspect of a small fishermen village. Nowadays, indeed, the little town has changed becoming an elegant and rich tourist resort. The slang of Cefalù’s fishermen helps us to understand the etymology of the word “Cif-alò”, meaning head or “river spring”, which recalls the imposing Rock, which dominates the town, and the head-like shape of the promontory that extends toward the sea. While the name “river spring” is given because of a rich fresh water spring that gushes at sea level. The Arabs, who admired the richness of the waters, the loveliness of the spot and the strength of the fortifications called it “Gafludi”. Besides the various remains found during excavation, which bear evidence of the very ancient origin of this site, the earliest records that identify the town of Cefalù date back from the 4th century, that is during the war between the Carthaginians and the Greeks from Syracuse. Then the town was dominated by the Romans, the Byzantines and in 858 by the Arabs. In 1083 Cefalù was conquered by the Norman Roger I. His son Roger II adopted this town where he begun the erection of the marvellous Cathedral. Subsequently Cefalù was ruled by different noble families, among which were the Chiaramonte and the Ventimiglia, until 1415 when it was declared state town. Between 1500 and 1600 it was fortified with bastions. During the Enlightenment Cefalù offered to Sicily and to the whole world men of great culture, such as Rosario Porpora. The following sentence concentrates the character of Cefalù: “Town of many courtyards where Baroque blends with Renaissance and art itself mingles with everyday life”.

How to get there

Fly to Palermo which is 90 kms from Palermo International Airport.

Activities near Cefalu

Facilities

Further details

Lunch and dinner can be provided on request, price to be arranged.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
6 January - 31 March 2007	6 Jan 07	31 Mar 07	1020£  810	0-	0-	1 Week
31 March - 30 June 2007	31 Mar 07	30 Jun 07	1220£  968	0-	0-	1 Week
30 June - 1 September 200	30 Jun 07	1 Sep 07	1490£  1,183	0-	0-	1 Week
1 September - 27 October	1 Sep 07	27 Oct 07	1220£  968	0-	0-	1 Week
27 October - 15 December	27 Oct 07	15 Dec 07	1020£  810	0-	0-	1 Week
15 December - 29 December	15 Dec 07	30 Dec 07	1220£  968	0-	0-	1 Week
30 December - 05 January	30 Dec 07	6 Jan 08	1290£  1,024	0-	0-	1 Week
06 January - 29 March	6 Jan 08	30 Mar 08	1090£  865	0-	0-	1 Week
30 March - 28 June	30 Mar 08	29 Jun 08	1290£  1,024	0-	0-	1 Week
29 June - 30 August	29 Jun 08	31 Aug 08	1560£  1,238	0-	0-	1 Week
31 August - 25 October	31 Aug 08	26 Oct 08	1290£  1,024	0-	0-	1 Week
26 October - 13 December	26 Oct 08	14 Dec 08	1090£  865	0-	0-	1 Week
14 December - 27 December	14 Dec 08	28 Dec 08	1290£  1,024	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the owner's discretion.

Availability notes

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Contact details for home 6391 Please mention Holiday Lettings
Name:	Michele Russo
Tel:	+39 091 6194207
Mobile:	+39 3473713686
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