The villa looks exactly like the pictures. It is large, but rather old-fasioned. It is mentionned that there is no airco, but that would up-grade the house enormously, since it is very , very hot in summer (we were the first week of July). The swimmingpool is fantastic, clean and very large, although there is not a lot of space to sit around it, as it shows on the pictures. For us that was the best place of the house. If you want to play tennis, bring your own rackets, because the rackets there are in a bad shape. Please realise that for all your shopping (even fresh bread in the morning) you need to go by car and take the curvy road for 12 - 15 minutes to the Lidl store. From there you can continue to make other excursions. On the mountain itself, you find a very good typical Italian restaurant where you can eat at very low prices. It’s 5 minutes by car and from there you can also start the fantastic walk to Cava Grande, which it quite an effort (especially climbing back), but a great experience. Other places to visit from there are Noto, Marzamemi (rent a boat at Victory, great service and prices), Siracusa, Mount Etna in the morning and late afternoon the beautiful Taormina (2 hours drive back, but worth it). Gianni, the cousin of Daniela, is always very helpful in case of questions. Alltogether we spend very nice holidays in Avola Antica.