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Casa Carcicera - villa near Noto

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Casa Carcicera

Location Noto
Sleeps Maximum number of people  8
Bedrooms Number of bedrooms  4
Bathrooms Number of bathrooms  4
Service Mid - week cleaning included. Daily service on request.
Casa Carcicera | Noto | Sicily


Features:
  • Bright, airy & modern
  • Peaceful country location
  • Great views
Nearby:
  • Vendicari reserve & beaches
  • Noto valley baroque towns
  • Restaurants in Noto


Overview

Casa Carcicera is a modern, spacious, airy villa with a great pool and superb views in the Noto valley region of Sicily. It is set in a huge estate of hills studded with olive groves which roll gently down towards the superb beaches of the Vendicari Nature Reserve. It is a practical house too, boasting high quality fittings and appliances throughout, and offering four en-suite double rooms. A highlight is certainly the pool whose16 metres make it wonderful for a workout at any time of day.

The Property

Inside: from the front door, one enters the communal part of the house whose layout is perfect for a convivial holiday party and voluminous enough to hold the living, dining and kitchen areas without ever feeling crowded. The living area has comfortable sofas, two fireplaces and an entertainment area with large flat screen TV. In the centre of the house is the dining table, and beyond that the superbly equipped and wonderfully social kitchen leading out to a dining terrace, the garden and the pool. The four double bedrooms all have en-suite bathrooms and two of them have a bathtub in the room itself. There is also a study, with a desk and a sofa bed. Furnishings and decor are contemporary and stylish throughout.

Outside: the house is reached via a long unpaved road through the olive groves, and gives a sense of sublime privacy and tranquillity. It is on the top of one of several low hills that gently undulate down towards the Vendicari Nature Reserve. The pool is set in a large area outside the kitchen door and offers views across the hills to the shimmering sea.

The Area

Casa Carcicera is set in rolling hills between the fascinating baroque town of Noto and the beautiful natural reserve of Vendicari. Noto is the most easterly of a chain of baroque towns now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is also perhaps the most perfect of the baroque towns, which were all rebuilt in flamboyant style following a major earthquake in 1693. The Vendicari nature reserve boasts some of the finest sandy beaches in Sicily, which are pleasingly under populated even in the height of summer. Vendicari is also home to thousands of migrating flamingos, and sea turtles nest on its beaches.

If hiking in the hills is your thing, then there is some spectacular scenery in the rushing streams and waterfalls of Cassibile and at the Paleolithic burial sites in the dramatic valley of Pantalica.

Siracusa is just half an hour's drive away, and a day there is highly recommended to anybody spending a week or two at Casa Carcicera. A little further afield, the other baroque towns of Modica, Ragusa and Scicli are easily reachable in a day.

Distances

Catania airport: 100km-62miles-1hr30
Palermo airport: 333km-207miles-3hr50
Trapani airport: 413km-257miles-4hr40
Nearest beaches at Vendicari: 10mins by car
Noto: 10mins by car
Siracusa: 55km-34miles-50mins
Modica: 30km-20miles-45mins
Ragusa: 48km-29miles-1hr


Amenities


Accommodates (max) 8 Heating ***available
Bedrooms 4 Open fireplace available
Doubles/Twins 4 Washing machine available
Bathrooms 4 TV available
...of which ensuite 4 Satellite TV available
Daily cleaning *optional DVD Player available
Cook optional Stereo available
Pool (LxW in meters) 16x4 thinkSicily local support 24/7 available
Air Conditioning **available Internet Mobile broadband key  ****optional

yes/present= yes/present    optional/on request = optional/on request    no/not available= no/not available

*3 hours mid-week cleaning and change of linen included.
**in all bedrooms.
***extra - paid locally on consumption.
****available on request. Guests should buy their own data SIM card and top up as they go.
Pool open from Easter to end of October.


Think About

Casa Carcicera is a top house with a beautiful pool in a sought-after area of Sicily. There are a few drop-offs with low walls around the property, so parents with young children should pay attention.

2 clients have rated Casa Carcicera

What clients have said about Casa Carcicera

"Anxiety over the long and winding ascent through a a "
~ Olatowun Candide-Johnson - August 09

"Just lovely!"
~ Alicia Reynolds - August 09

"Just lovely!"
~ Alicia Reynolds - August 09



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18th property out of 85 All Villas in Sicily

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