Ortigia Market

If you visit the island of Ortigia, a key step is represented by the folkloristic market stalls, where vendors describe their products singing lullabies in the local dialect.

Among the stalls you can admire and buy food and local products such as vegetables, meats, dairy products, legumes and above all fish, shellfish and seafood products. The stalls, the neighboring shops and the so-called “Vanniate” (shouts) take the tourists in an atmosphere which is far away from today cold modernity.

In a period in which the products were really genuine and were sold to people who, attracted by the shouts, were running to buy the food that the earth or the sea had given to those who worked hard to feed their families.

In this market and in many other markets in the aretusea province this happens up to today.