This is an extraordinary villa with wonderful views(you can even see Etna on bright day), great large terrace (actully large on the back and smaller cosylooking into beautiful garden in front) and amazing gardens - our kids (6yr, 3yr) loved exploring it every morning (so many butterflies and lizzards!) whilst we were getting ready for another outing. It has great location for Syracuse, Modica, Noto and other gems:) There are also lovely sandy beaches nearby, that we enjoyed - we spend one whole day in a beach despite being late October! The house itself is not luxurious - it is old villa and not recently updated eg there's no dishwasher and kitchen has no warm running water - but it has everything you need, with some lovely touches such as Italian coffee espresso machine - we enjoyed lovely coffee sitting in the terasse and taking in all those amazing views- a bliss. Grazia also gave us many useful tips where to go and was very quick to respond to any query we had. Overall we absolutely loved staying here and would recommend!