AGRITURISMO IL DRAGO

The Farmhouse "Drago", ideal for the one who wants to spend calm and relaxing stays among the beauties of the Sicilian landscape, it is an ancient nineteenth-century Sicilian beam surrounded by the farm "Dragofosso" of 140 hectares, situated to few kilometers from Piazza Armerina with the famous Roman Villa del Casale - UNESCO World Heritage , Aidone and Caltagirone, recently restructured by the family Pocorobba.
Also maintaining her ancient characteristics, the building offers the modern whole comforts for a pleasant vacation between expanses of olive-groves, vineyards and pannings views on the Erei mountains in central Sicily

The inside is composed of 9 doubles rooms, all endowed with independent services ,air conditioning ,tv, with ceiling in cooked Sicilian tiling and beams to sight.
Besides, an ample and comforting dining room, also used for party, a room conferences and a pleasant stay that it becomes in the various moments of the day, a pleasant place of reading, of relax next to the fireplace and recreational zone.
The estate offers vast green spaces embellished by olive trees, firs, walnut-trees, poplars, pines that are issued along the sides of the hills mixin with fruit trees.
The rural picture is completed with the presence of animals among which, raw of goats, hens, sheep and pigs a typical example of Sicilian rural environment.


Inside the firm a small rich lake of fishes can be admired, where free ducks and geese swim and different aviaries with splendids peacocks, pheasants and doves.
The structure also offers a swimming pool, garden, games for children, ample panoramic terraces, terrace solarium and private parking lot.
For the one whom the sport loves there am a handling, with the possibility to take horseriding or also excursion with bicycle, polyvalent sporting field, trekking through the hills of the ample estate.
The kitchen, typical of the island, uses vegetables, wine and oil produced inside the same agricultural firm.
To taste: cheeses, sauces, preserves, olives and local traditional dishes.
Services:
* 9 Double Rooms furnished in classical style, with TV, private bathroom and air conditioning.
Rooms and services for disadvantaged persons;
* Lounge Bar and Sitting Room with TV-Sat for relaxing moments;
* Swimming pool (20x10mt) equipped with beach umbrellas, deckchairs and showers;
* Mountain Bike rental for peaceful rides in the nature;
* Guided routes in the nature for trekking lovers;
* The “Pineta dei Piccoli”, a large equipped playground for children's fun;
* Riding school, entirely equipped, with the possibility of excursions to the Quattroteste creek and long hilly walks;
* Shooting Field
* Multipurpose sporting field.

How to find:
* From Palermo to Catania:
- Highway (Autostrada A19) Catania - Palermo
- Exit "Mulinello"
- To follow direction "Piazza Armerina"
- Exit "Piazza Armerina Sud"
- To follow direction "Il Drago"
* From Agrigento:
- Exit "Piazza Armerina Sud"
- To follow direction"Il Drago"

History of Piazza Armerina...
The history of the city of Piazza(Armerina was added in 1862) it has beginning in the Norman period, but its territory was inhabited since the prehistory, as they shows the archaeological recoveries of Mountain Navone and, above all, of Mountain of March.
The city had to be flourishing in Roman epoch, as is testified from the splendid “Villa Romana del Casale” of the beginning of the IV century, with its floors in mosaic famous all over the world.
During the centuries has suffered alternate stories, but has often developed political roles of prestige and her cultural and economic life she has always been particularly active, so much to bring upon themselves the appellative of "opulent city" from the emperor Charles V.
Piazza Armerina (721 meters.u.s.l.
- ab.
22.000 ca.) it is an ideal city for the one who wants to spend a pleasant vacation to the insignia of the relax and the culture.
It is, in fact, a happy match between the work of the nature and the intervention of the man.
Around 20.000 hectares of greens and luxuriant woods they mitigate the climate of it during the warm summer days and ideal places of vacation.
She is also an interesting city of art and its numerous monuments represent an inestimable cultural patrimony.