Ragusa

I myself will be going back next month, so I will be in that area.

I'm going to see my relatives in Sicily, both in the city of Ragusa and in the smaller village of Militello and Valda Catania.

I'm so jealous.

Yeah.

Is it always been in the Vittoria area or elsewhere as well?

Yes, my family, Yakuno family, was born in the province of Ragusa originally and we are always involved in agricultural cultivation.

Today we have also an orange organic estate and the vineyards, of course.

But the story of the specific place where we are today, we are talking today, the date was in the end of 19...

And the wine inside the little barrels was the Frappato.

And also, when it became Cerasuolo, reality inside there was also Frappato.

So another thing that I can say very important is this was a symbol of the viticulture of the area of the province of Ragusa where we are located.

You know, this area, Ragusa, and just to put it into context for our viewers and listeners, it is in southern Italy, kind of south central.

Austria's Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit, better known as AGES, has urged shoppers not to eat raw cocktail tomaten imported from Sicily.

The warning concerns tomatoes grown in the Italian provinces of Ragusa and Caltanissetta, which have been linked to an outbreak of the dangerous bacterium Salmonella strathcona.

Around 30 people in Austria have already fallen ill, while more than 160 cases have been recorded across 10 European countries.

This is a food safety mystery with a history.

For that, you only need to drive 20 minutes down the road.

Ragusa is another of those UNESCO Baroque towns.

It's a city of two halves.

One is the old town.

At 25,000 euro, a village house in the hills above Cefalu.

At 120,000 euro, a top floor apartment in the heart of Baroque Medice.

At 520,000 euro, a renovated home with valley views in Ragusa.

So how do I approach buying here? The house matters, the town matters more.

Oh my gosh.

And so if, if you ask me to pick between, um, like the west coast of Sicily with, with Palermo versus, um, going to, uh, Ragusa or Notto or Siracusa Ortigia, like, I prefer that part.

It was a lot, a lot more to what I'm used to.

So from a comfort level, I felt more at home.