Background
Born in Palermo on 03/09/1980.
She dictated her first poem to her mother at the age of four. Her family was greatly amazed since she could not yet write.
For years she has set this passion aside because she considered it too private a matter. So in the morning she always destroyed what she wrote during her dreamful nights.
But one morning she woke up and said to herself “why not??”. So in 2006 she published her first collection of poems and paintings called “La donna che ha voglia di Pace” in the effort to hand on the emotions that poetry and art can give when the rhythm of the lines blends perfectly with the deepness of the colours.
The permanent exhibition of the artist’s paintings is at “A casa di amici”.
Now she is trying to create an itinerary which will give her guests the possibility of seeing Sicily as she sees it. It’s just a dream but she hopes it will come true. Don’t hesitate to rely on her. :-)

Background
Born in Palermo on 03/06/1976.
He assembles and disassembles anything he can put his hands on! And so he does with his drums. For years he has passed a great deal of time in the warehouse trying to create out of his fantasy strange instruments which produce music, until one day he decided to turn his hobby into a job.
He is now one of the best Sicilian artisans in the percussion field. He teaches in his Academy in Palermo and in various primary and secondary schools as a freelance teacher.
He founded two musical groups - Jambo Sana and Coper-tones – which have played during important Sicilian events. Today he lovingly devotes his life to music.

Background
Born in Palermo on 16/03/1978.
A long time has passed … about 15 years .. since, while helping her mother, she found an old picture of such bad taste that she decided to throw it away immediately. Ironically she said to herself “Perhaps it look so awful because of the dust”. So she started to clean it up and her hand was attracted by the fineness of the plywood and her eyes by the landscape of Monte Pellegrino and the Palermo Gulf, and gradually the painting began to communicate something to her. So she took some old tempera colours and in just three hours she captured the landscape.
She is self-taught and, although 15 years have passed, her paintings still move her.
In her paintings she uses fresh and natural colours, warm and passionate ones which associate Sicily with Africa. She is a Sicilian woman, a careful observer, with a sunny character, but she is also a little African and Brazilian, musician and dancer, and a great admirer of nature.  Margherita is all this and so is her art.

Letizia Ampolilla,
Graduated in foreign languages, specialized in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, Sicilian.
Background
Born in Castelvetrano (TP) on 16/11/1982.
Traveller and lover of art in all its forms
She moved to Palermo to attend university.
She refers: “With Palermo it was love at first sight, I was ravished by the noise, the smell and the  flavours of a city full of life. In the same way, it was love at first sight with Claudia, Santo and all the Vitale family which I now feel a part of.  I think nothing happens by chance!  My first thought when I saw the colours of the hall and Claudia’s smile was ‘this is my place!’ and now, believe it or not, I am here waiting for you!  I carry out my work trying to improve myself and helping our guests to love this island which I love so much.
I grew up in Selinunte under the starry sky which looks over the soft African-like sea-side where now is located “A casa di amici on the beach”. In this extraordinary setting, between the north and the south of Sicily, I love to describe - everyday at the reception - the beauties of the island to all our visitors.”