Contrada Passopisciaro, located precisely on the northern slope, is a hamlet of Castiglione di Sicilia, in the province of Catania, which is part of the circuit of one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
It is in the island of fire, as Dante called it when referring to this volcanic area, that we find some of the oldest cultivated vineyards in Italy, even more than a hundred years old and still planted with "piede franco. And here, the sapling climbed all over the mountain with the help of the black lava stone terraces, has for centuries found its ideal setting.