One afternoon, last spring, while wandering the lovely hilltown of Ragusa Ibla in Sicily’s Baroque South East,  I came across a beautiful  Liberty style building, Villino Arezzo. 

That afternoon I had walked uphill from Ragusa Ibla's Piazza del Duomo.

A hilltop villino Taking up an entire block, noble Villino Arezzo stands handsomely on the very top of  a flat hill on Piazza Dottor Solarino. Overlooking a valley on one side and partly a little derelict on another. I was intrigued. 

When I return to Sicily, the Madonie Mountains and Polizzi for a few weeks mid -year it will be almost the start of the Sicilian summer.

There will be warm days, moments of  rediscovery and the enjoyment of  trips to places, new and familiar, across the island - 'the soul affirming joy of returning' (travel writer Peter Jon Lindberg).