Ragusa Ragusa Ibla - Donnafugata Castle

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This full day tour, 6 / 7 hours can start from many cities in Sicily, Pozzallo, Malta, Siracusa, Catania, Agrigento, Noto. On this tour the most important issue is the art of Sicilian Baroque, and these three cities express the more fascinating when we visit the Baroque churches, palaces of ancient nobility of the families of yesterday and today. You should know that the only town of Ragusa Ibla is eighteen Unescu heritage sites of Mondo.Vi encourage you to try the cuisine of this city, offering the best in the inns or restaurants, such as the Dome of the restaurant Scheff Ciccio Sultano who has two stars in the guide Michlen and if you want a relaxing and cultural holiday and for this I recommend you our best hotels in Ragusa Ibla, such as the Baroque hotel, Locanda Donserafino, Villa Del Lauro, hotels and hotel Cavalieri Di Vittorio Veneto hotel Stefano.Questi are all built in ancient noble Palace Baroque. For this tour, our best drivers, we recommend the best things,exemple the Castle of Donnafugata, the medieval village of the Scicli and Modica .

Donnafugata Castle Istory of Barone Arezzo

Donnafugata Castle tour with vintage car and driver:
This tour is done starting from the cities of Sicily. Our driver will accompany the entrance of the castle and are waiting outside. The visit of the Castle has a time of two hours for a visit with a guide to the 
inside of the castle and also to the outside with all his garden. 
The garden has a style Italian and half English.
For all guests of of Ragusa 
we offer tours with exclusive trip with old cars in 1937, this is a very 
exclusive and personalized tour for up to 3 people and only by reservation. 

Il Ballo delle Dame al Castello Donnafugata del Barone Arezzo di Ragusa in Sicilia.

The history of this castle began between the X and XI century and was the work of the Arabs, who built a group of dwelling places near a source of fresh water which was called "Ayn As Jafat" (Fountain of Health). A legend tells of a woman that, prisoner in the castle, was able to escape. She was the Queen Bianca of Navarra that was imprisoned, by the perfidious Count Bernardo Cabrera, in a room from which she was able to escape through the tunnels that led in the country that surrounded the castle. From here the dialect-name "Ronnafugata", escaped woman, from which the present Donnafugata originated. In fact, the Queen Bianca of Navarra was never been in the castle because, at her times (XIV century), the castle wasn't still built. The building, submitted to changes and added to until 1960, fundamentally owes its appearance to Corrado Arezzo de Spuches, the Baron of Donnafugata and a prominent figure in XIX century political life. From this room ( in photo ) you enter in the "Music Room", so called because there are three mechanical pianos with rotating cylinders and an upright piano. This room is one of the most beautiful in the whole castle and is richly furnished with saofas and armchairs, set in groups for conversation and listening music. This is the only room which has frescoes on the walls. This room leads into the "Ladies' Sitting Room", which was used for conversation. Besides the usual wallpaper and beautiful curtains, there are also two large mirrors, a fireplace and a piece of inlaid furniture of remarkable workmanship.