It is an island dedicated to light and sun: a balcony overlooking the sea. Everyone has passed through here: Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans. This is where you can meet them again. In flavors, shapes, scents, legends. The layers of history have intertwined and today's Ortigia lives on Arethusa and funk, anciove and Federico II, mixology and sacred iconography. What you have in your hands is not a guide: rather, a travel notebook with the anecdotes so often told and shown to the many visiting friends. Intertwining historical testimonies with popular rumors, Greek myths with the names of the people who make this island every day, we learned from Ortigia, mixed the mortar of everything, in attempt to restore the gaze of those who live this island every day. Texts by Lucia MoschellaIllustrations by Fabrizio Foti