In a prime location, just minutes from Syracuse and the sea, and a short distance from the most beautiful Sicilian Baroque architecture, a charming old rural building, immersed in the tranquility of a large park with typical Sicilian vegetation, is the ideal place for pleasant stays, receptions, meetings, and parties for any occasion.
Half-board or full-board options available, featuring traditional Syracusan dishes, garden produce, and dairy products.
Shuttle service, boat and car rental options, excursions and guided tours, bicycles, cooking classes, games, and visits to the stables and adjacent dairy.
Learning on the farm
2012/2013
The “Case Damma” agricultural/agritourism company, an educational company accredited number 10 by the Sicilian Regional Department of Agriculture and Forestry, located at Km 9 of the Siracusa - Canicattini Bagni provincial road, offers guided tours of the farm to preschool and primary school classes.
The company's activities aim to assist teachers in the important task of introducing students to traditional foods by addressing various topics from a historical, socio-cultural, agri-food, sensorial, and nutritional perspective.
Each individual learning program will be implemented through a playful, experiential methodology (while maintaining a scientific basis), highly active, engaging, and always appropriate for the children's ages. Teachers will be provided with teaching materials that can be used in class to consolidate or verify what they learned in the company.
Didactic paths
From wheat to bread (all year round)
From milk to its derivatives (all year round)
From olives to oil (October only)
Citrus fruits
Botanical path in the historic garden
Farmer for a day
From wheat to bread
Bread making, from flour to baking.
Demonstration of dough kneading using traditional peasant tools, active student participation, preparation of personal sandwiches, and tasting of warm bread with olive oil.
Powerpoint presentation of the supply chain and delivery of the material projected to teachers for in-depth study in the classroom.
From milk to its derivatives
Visit to the Damma dairy during which the pupils will attend all stages of milk processing.
Demonstration of the production of ricotta, mozzarella, cheese
Visit to the stables for direct observation and familiarization with the animals
Powerpoint presentation of the aforementioned path and delivery of the material projected to the teachers for further study in the classroom.
From olives to oil
Arrival at Case Damma, breakfast with bread with oil/focaccia…
Problematization.
Powerpoint presentation of the supply chain and delivery of the material projected to teachers for in-depth study in the classroom.
Observation of the collection collection transfer to the mill.
Observation of the milling process.
Give each pupil a 100ml bottle of oil.
Upon request and at no additional cost, the following activities can be combined with each itinerary:
Direct observation of fruit trees: medlars, figs, apricots, pomegranates, plums, oranges, mulberries, olives, lemons, etc.
Guided tour of the various rooms of the farmhouse: (upon request) the wine press, the housewife's house, the oven, the wash house, the dormitory of the "iurnatari", tools and objects of ancient peasant civilization (carts, plows, etc.)
Also included:
Breakfasts featuring warm bread topped with our own oil, or alternatively pizza, warm ricotta (milk only), homemade cakes or pies, or pre-packaged ice cream, drinks, or, alternatively, lunch with a children's menu;
free play and recreational activities in the park and courtyard.
playground
small museum of popular traditions
