From the streets of Caltagirone, Modica, Noto, Scicli, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa Ibla, Ortigia and Siracusa comes this photographic collection celebrating the nature and history of a land traversed by peoples and cultures with strong and contrasting differences. The sediment of this millenary history is a time that seems to stand still, impervious to contemporaneity and its voracious rhythms.

Bar Amore is a welcome gift from Dimora delle Balze and an invitation to get lost in the baroque manners of the land that hosts the estate. The protagonist of Bar Amore is precisely this scenery. ‘And the Baroque, which more than an artistic style is here a modus vivendi, emerges from Palmieri’s images,’ writes art historian Angela Madesani in the introduction to the photographic book.

A way of life that in these shots is evoked with the image of the summer heat, of the empty and sunny streets, of the scarred faces of those who sit on the steps of the village square. And again: the controra, the Turk’s head, the almonds and granitas, the summer heat, the square benches, the ceramic workshops, the Sicilian carts, churches, cathedrals and the terraces overlooking the sea.

Bar Amore is a Dimora delle Balze project dedicated to those who visit the Val di Noto. A collection of suggestions of beauty, folklore and tradition. A key that invites you to open yourself up to the magic of Sicily.

Lorenzo Palmieri is a photographer and journalist. He collaborates with museums, galleries, Italian and international magazines.