Museum Foundation Piccolo Family of Calanovella

In the Vina district, on top of a splendid hill overlooking the plain of Capo d'Orlando, stands the historic residence of the barons Piccolo di Calanovella. The nineteenth-century villa became famous thanks to the charisma of the three brothers Piccolo, Casimiro, Lucio and Agata Giovanna, its illustrious inhabitants until the end of the sixties. Living the villa means entering a parallel reality, where the figures of the poet Lucio, the photographer and watercolorist Casimiro and the botanist Agata Giovanna, children of the princess Teresa Tasca Filangeri, dominate. Cousin Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa also often came to reside in the villa and, among these rooms, wrote a good part of his literary masterpiece, The Leopard. The complex consists of its two souls, that of the house museum, a container of incredible memorabilia, and of the botanical park where there is also a cemetery where the dogs and cats of the family were buried.