Isolotto Brancati

Delightful small natural island, which, due to its location a few meters from the coast and the particular structure of the block of flats that stands there, has become over time one of the symbols of Marzamemi.
Since the early decades of the 20th century, Prof. Raffaele Brancati, a doctor from Pachino and distinguished chair of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Catania, obtained the state concession of the islet. The latter had his summer residence built on the islet, a characteristic red-burgundy building, where he often used to host his cousin, the famous Pachinese writer Vitaliano Brancati, who drew from that suggestive place a source of poetic inspiration. Toward the end of the 1930s, the state concession of the islet became property, so the place took on the name Isolotto Brancati.