"A blast from the past" is a beautiful old villa in a good location close to Noto.
It's close to the road, but without any nuisance.
It is surrounded by a nice, rustique garden and has a fairly sized pool, which we sadly could use only twice due to bad weather.
The interior is athmospheric, whith a large central fireplace. The furniture is homely but simple, whith sofas covered in blankets.
Although the house accomodates 8, there are only 5 chairs at the kitchen table as well as at the terrace table.
As the house had not been used for a while, it took some time to heat it up. It also suffers from some moist in a few rooms, not unusual for these old buildings I guess.
The house was surrounded by cats, eager to get inside and steel some food. Even though I like cats a lot, doors and windows had to be closed at all time to keep them out.
Altogether we had a very pleasant stay, although in my opinion the place is quite overpriced (close to 400€/night mid October), and requesting 100€ extra for two baby beds to be paid upon departure was a bit of an unpleasant surprise too.
I guess the value is the main reason to reward only 3 stars.