点评:We had a highly enjoyable visit to this splendid villa up in the Zisa area, with its lavishly painted rooms, interesting collections of paintings and objet d’arts and enormous Moreton Bay fig in the strollable garden. A post on Facebook helped me realise that it was just a few blocks away from our flat, so we combined it with the nearby Villino Florio for a very pleasant morning. Federica met us at the door and gave us a private tour, since we were the only guests there at that particular moment, filling us in entertainingly on the engrossing details of the Ingham and Whitaker families and their lives in Sicily. The only sad thing was that the pretty big library of English books, including a lot of classics from the 20s, like Sax Rohmer and John Buchan, is destined to simply gather dust and remain unopened and unread. (And if you’re up in this area, why not pop into the Mille Luci bakery along the road in Via Lascaris, where the pastries are absolutely yummy!)
翻译:我们非常愉快地参观了这座位于齐萨地区的华丽别墅,这里有华丽的彩绘房间、有趣的绘画和艺术品收藏,还有可漫步的花园里巨大的莫顿湾无花果。Facebook 上的一篇帖子让我意识到它离我们的公寓只有几个街区,所以我们把它和附近的 Villino Florio 结合起来,度过了一个非常愉快的早晨。Federica 在门口迎接我们,并带我们进行了一次私人游览,因为我们当时是那里唯一的客人,她有趣地向我们讲述了 Ingham 和 Whitaker 家族及其在西西里生活的引人入胜的细节。唯一令人遗憾的是,这个相当大的英语图书馆,包括许多 20 年代的经典作品,如 Sax Rohmer 和 John Buchan,注定会积满灰尘,无人打开和阅读。 (如果您来到这个地区,为什么不去拉斯卡里斯大街 (Via Lascaris) 旁的 Mille Luci 面包店呢,那里的糕点绝对美味!)