A house on the coast road between the lighthouse and the Leuca Ciolo bridge. A house lined with stone and perched on the rock. Look at the sea as far as the eye and see the sun and the moon rising on the horizon every day ... And the stars at night ... The house has three large double bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, a lounge very spacious room with fireplace and sofa, a fully equipped kitchen, two bathrooms, one outside the house. An all around a courtyard area with a covered veranda with panoramic exposed wood that takes the whole front and looks towards the sea and the sky merge on the horizon without interruption. When the weather permits you can see the mountains of Albania that in that stretch are about 100km. On the veranda, armchairs, sofas and rocking chairs wicker allow you to enjoy a relaxation area or convivial meetings enhanced by priceless view. Always on the porch, but at the door of the kitchen, a solid larch table allows you to have breakfast and meals outdoors enjoying the landscape and at the sound of cicadas and crickets ... The house is airy and bright, and being in position elevated on the road is often ventilated in order to mitigate the thirst of the hottest summers also. Someone asked me the reason of the name of our house "them Cucuruzzi de Mo Clean". We start from the easiest thing, Mo Clean is my father, Luigi, and that's the nickname of our family in the country (Gagliano del Capo). As you know in our country the nickname is crucial, perhaps even more than the last. And nicknames may have roots in the past, more or less distant, or to be born in this following a dominant feature of the character that are attributed ... inevitable that his children become children of the "nickname" and so on in the story of the family. It fabled that the nickname to my father's family comes from the fact that his grandfather Francesco (of which I bear the name, and we are at least three or four namesakes in the country) was a capable painter with valuable to leave the house clean in the mirror after the works ... it had to be really so if you are then earned this nickname ... Dad wanted with all his soul this house and built it stone by stone, and we with him ... so it's more than our ... Cucuruzzi is instead the name of the location where the home is located, a fraught area of rocks scattered around the countryside, the farmers had to clean up if they wanted to enjoy nature's gifts. limestone rocks and shaggy and angular and sharp, just like the rocks of the sea ... Cucuruzzi scattered everywhere, in fact ... And our house is built right on a block of rock that had just covered with a layer of earth .. . the stones of which the house is lined come precisely from the rock on which it stands ... up there ... well, it Cucuruzzi de Mo Clean ...
