Le Chiuse di Guadagna

Light, stone, drywalls, and a multitude of centuries-old carob trees are the features of “Le chiuse di Guadagna”, a place of preservation and dissemination of the culture of south-east Sicily.Visiting Le chiuse di Guadagna gives you the opportunity to discover the history and the traditions of a land rich in nature and culture.Le chiuse di Guadagnais an ancient medium-size farmhouse, where carobs, cheese and wine used to beproduced and storaged. In the past, the rooms of the farm were the agricultural production site.As in most “masserias” of this area, the workers lived in a wing of the farmhouse, and the proprietorsalso used a part of the building as a temporary residence.Nowadaysthe residential building, formerly called “casina di villeggiatura”, maintains its original purpose, whilebarns, storage roomsandthe rooms once devoted to farming and dairy production, have beenturned into confortable bedroomsfor our valued guests.