Dammuso

Restaurant

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Address: Via Rocco Pirri 10 96017 Noto Sicily Italy
Phone: +39931835786
Website: http://www.ristorantedammuso.it

A dammuso is a type of traditional Sicilian peasant house, found mainly on the island of Pantelleria and also on nearby Lampedusa. The name comes from the Pantesco dialect of Sicilian dammusu, meaning 'vault', which is derived from the Arabic دِمّوس and Latin domus. The architectural style is possibly Arabic in origin, and the oldest known dammusi date to around the 10th century, when the islands... (Wikipedia)