{"id":10002424,"date":"2013-03-01T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/?p=10002424"},"modified":"2018-05-10T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:49:02","slug":"bar-vitelli-an-open-air-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/bar-vitelli-an-open-air-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Vitelli. An open air set"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n Savoca, few kilometres from Taormina, one of the mo<\/span>st beautiful villages of Italy, you cannot but visit the historical Bar Vitelli. From the picturesque Fossia square, you look out onto the Palazzo Trimarchi from the 17<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0century, which hosts the shop that shaped the history of the Sicilian village since 1963. After a long series of hairpin turns, we feel almost out of context, catapulted in a place where time stopped. No cars, semi-desert roads and a brushed wooden sign shining on the building\u2019s fa\u00e7ade: Bar Vitelli, while the gaze at our back gets lost in the valley cut by the glimpse of the Gulf of Taormina. Lorenzo Motta, nephew of Mrs Maria, who is known as the one that made the history of Savoca, welcomes us in the small veranda under a pergola. He talks with great admiration about her and tells us some of her anecdotes. The one that strikes me most is the anecdote about coffee: she also served the sugar bowl and asked every guest \u201chow much sugar?\u201d, pouring and mixing the coffee in cup. During our chat, he makes us serve lemon granite, with the citrus fruits tasting like pulled out \u201cr\u00e0 maccia\u201d (from the tree), accompanied by \u201czuccarate\u201d, typical local biscuits. While he\u2019s telling me about the history of Bar Vitelli, there\u2019s the soundtrack of \u201cThe Godfather\u201d<\/span>\u00a0by Francis Ford Coppola in the background. Actually, the American director turned this small gem into a going and coming of tourists and visitors from all over the world. Indeed, the bar is the emblem of the small hamlet hosting only 700 inhabitants, above all for its cinematographic meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n