Residence delle Vele

Our Residence is located in the center of Santa Marina Salina, about 200 meters from the sea, and consists of six rooms, a bar, an outdoor whirlpool tub and large panoramic terraces. The rooms equipped with television, air conditioning, telephone and kitchenette have been designed for a holiday to be managed in a family atmosphere and without constraints.

Made by renovating a traditional Aeolian house located in Santa Marina Salina.
In the Aeolian houses the balance between the needs of domestic life inside and that of having large spaces outside, where you can spend the days during most of the year, from late spring to late autumn, was singular. The sunshine of the houses was also singular, arranged in such a way as to follow the cycle of days and seasons, whose perimeter walls do not constitute a limit but allow the strong colors of the landscape to penetrate. The large terrace (bagghiu) with the seats and columns, called the bisòla and the pulèra respectively, is covered by the loggia pergola, lush with leaves during the good season and bare in winter when the healthy rays of the sun filter through.
Nestled between the seats of the terrace are the wash house (stacked), the cistern (with a heap) to collect rainwater, the garden (a littèra) and the typical shelters for animals (the mànnari) at the edge of the garden.

To complete the Aeolian house there were the palmento (u parmientu) the warehouse for the storage of tools (u maiazzienu) and to protect the grapes (a pinnata) from the night humidity that were put to raisin on cane racks (i cannnizzi).
Cubes, arches, columns, external stairs, simple geometries were combined in harmonious architectural complexes well integrated into the surrounding environment, under the watchful eye of the volcanoes. The colors, now strong now soft, obtained from the earth mixed with lime milk, recalled the various hues of the lava and the sea and contributed to the inclusion of the building heritage in the landscape, as if it were a living part of the extraordinary natural environment of the island.

The sea breeze during the day and in the evening the smell of carnations in the small flowerbed, u mignànu, created between the seats of the terrace, on the first floor, basil and mint in the garden, together with the smells of the Mediterranean scrub from the countryside, remain the dominant scents and the emblematic example of a healthy balance with the surrounding environment, which we have tried to respect together with traditional building types.