Villa Vaccarino
Villa Vaccarino Designed by the engineer Gaetano Bonanno in collaboration with the painter Michele Amoroso to which the decorative parts are due. Late example of art nouveau, the villa does not have an architecture of particular originality but retains beautiful decorations in wood, iron, stucco and glass as well as decorative paintings of the Amoroso. You enter the house, after passing the fine fence, through ramps that go over the strong difference in level with the street plan: the building is surrounded by a garden, in which there is a spring with an artificial islet that presents the plant of Sicily flanked by smaller islets with volcanoes. The two-storey house has a corner body just mentioned with high tympanum and bow windows in iron and glass decorated on the ground floor.
A large balcony supported by columns completes the façade, with a classical design enriched by rather conventional floral decorations. Inside, a central atrium divides the ground-floor rooms and enters into the staircase leading to the first floor, scenically decorated with wrought iron, stucco and stained glass. The living room and the rooms on the ground floor have ceilings decorated with Liberty stucco on designs that reveal the presence of a strong concrete frame concealed by large lacunars. In the rooms on the first floor, the absence of heavy framing has made it possible to create beautiful frescoed ceilings with floral motifs: one of the rooms has four landscape inserts, two of which are related to views of Milazzo.