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Our project is an attempt at creating a utopia as a community with various geometries and a fair economy founded on sharing and giving to serve a project.
This masseria combines culture and the arts in all their forms and without hierarchy agriculture, visual and sound arts, cooking, literature and everything that can exist between and besides, with people at the center.
Our villa in Sicily, a landscape shaped over centuries by its inhabitants, is an island in the center of the sea linking three continents, a place of passage — open to the world.
Initiated by the 2 owners in a valley between Ragusa and Modica in the Hyblean mountains with the aim to revive the stones, the aia, the capella, the villa, the masseria, to learn, share, redefine, transmit and build
Nostro progetto rappresenta il tentativo di costruire una utopia, una comunità a geometria variabile,
un’economia equa fondata sulla condivisione e sul dono al servizio di un progetto.
Intende associare cultura ed arti di tutti i generi, senza alcun pregiudizio gerarchico: agricoltura, arti visive e sonore, cibo, letteratura e quant’altro vi si possa unire, mantenendo sempre presente la centralità della persona.
Questa masseria è un luogo di passaggio a immagine della Sicilia, aperto al Mondo, come l’Isola, in mezzo al mare, tra tre continenti, modellata nei secoli dalle donne e dagli uomini che vi hanno vissuto.
Nasce in una valle tra Ragusa e Modica dalla volontà dei proprietari di rianimare le sue pietre, l’aia, la cappella, la dimora e la masseria per apprendere, trasmettere, condividere, ridefinire e costruire
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Notre projet est la tentative de mettre en place une utopie, une communauté à géométrie variable, une économie équitable basée sur le partage et le don au service d’un projet.
Qui associe la culture et les arts sous toutes leurs formes et sans hiérarchie l’agriculture, les arts visuels et sonores, la cuisine, la littérature et tout ce qui peut exister entre et à coté, avec au centre les personnes.
Cette Masseria est un lieu de passage ouvert au Monde à l’image de la Sicile. Île au centre de la mer liant 3 continents, terre façonnée au fil des siècles par ses femmes et ses hommes.
Elle est née de la volonté des propriétaires de faire revivre les pierres, l’aia, la cappella, la villa, la masseria dans une vallée entre Ragusa, Modica sur les monts hybléens pour transmettre, apprendre, partager, redéfinir et construire.
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Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn some small notions of renovation of a house: lime plasters, paints, waxing terracotta... and for the bravest learning of the renovation of Sicilian dry stone walls with local artisans... Otherwise there is also a lot of gardening work depending on the season: targeted weeding, shrub sizes, soil preparation, permaculture development, fruit harvesting and preparation of preserves... And we speaks together in French, English and/or Italian. Not Sicilian yet !
Help
Part of the villa is already renovated but there are still finishing works: coatings, paints, treatments of the frames... Also the 7 gardens must be requalified and landscaped: vegetable garden, olive and walnut garden, citrus, dry garden, aia... Finally, we must feed and play with Lina and Ugo the two puppies that we collected on the side of a road two years ago...
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
1 bedroom with 1 double bed and 1 single bed and a bathroom is available in the villa all year long and an independent studio (to be converted) are free for spring and summer time.
We will prepare food together for lunch and we will cook for the evening dinner. Everything is include except wines and beers.
What else ...
We are in the heart of the Val de Noto, a world heritage site. The farm is 8km from the centre of Modica and 12km from Ragusa and 29km from the sea. There is a bus and train network from Modica station. One of the most beautiful preserved countryside of Sicily with the most beautiful dry stone walls.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
We already have 2 dogs
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
4/5 heures par jour max, 5j/sem.
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On our first day, we were warmly welcomed by Phillipe and his two dogs Lina and Hugo and shown around his beautiful empire. A house renovated with a lot of love and style which Phillipe and his husband Jan want to create into a place for art, culture and well-being. Surrounded by olive and fig trees that adorn the enchanting… read more
