Old & new in Ortigia

Walking around in Ortigia this is what you can find: the old and the new, side by side in Via Roma....

Ortigia is not exclusively a tourist place. It's also still a place where the local people live, still working there for years like in the 1895 's barber's shop of Mr Corrado

inventing new business reinterpreting old traditions and symbols of Sicily for new stuff like in "Siculamente-shop"

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Il bello di Ortigia è proprio questo: passeggiare per i vicoli e scoprire il nuovo ed il vecchio piacevolemnte convivere l'uno accanto all'altro.

Per fortuna la gente del posto non è del tutto andata via, e c'è anche chi arriva per investire...

Così, per esempio in Via Roma, accanto all'antica sala da barba in stile Liberty del signor Corrado (dal 1895!!) trovi anche il negozio di Siculamente, ottima reinterpretazione di tradizioni e simboli di Sicilia attraverso nuove produzioni!!!

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