Mazzarrà Sant'Andrea

This is a small, 1600 people ‘city’ that is hard to be found, and that doesn’t have many tourists around (mostly people with relatives and friends in the area visit it).
If you want to see a village with just the piazza, with the old people chatting on the streets, nothing hugely big and monumental to attract the tourists for this particular village, this is it. If you just end up browsing the roads around Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, have a coffee and a cornetto in a bar, enjoy the landscapes and the people, find the ‘arco di Carmelo’ (the oldest piece of construction remaining in the village) and continue to somewhere nice, like Eolie Islands, Castroreale, Taormina etc.