HOLIDAYS IN DAMMUSO
	Some anthropologists have defined the "Pantellerian Civilisation" the last European agricultural society not yet contaminated by automation and the consumer society. In effect, on Pantelleria the uses, customs and structures typical of the old agricultural societies survive. Time seems to have stood still at some imprecise date and its slow rhythms are measured by the rising and setting of the sun, the harvest, the crops, sowing, the slaying of the pig and the goat. The hospitality, tolerance and discreet curiosity of the Pantellerians are things which strike any visitor, but the person who has the fortune to head inland and visit the villages not yet contaminated by tourism will be literally taken aback by the unexpected sight of how the world would be if the ecologists had their way. The fields surrounded by black walls are ploughed, hoed, cleaned and ordered with such a precision and ancient art which, alternating with the woods, Mediterranean shrub or the "dammusi" (the local brick buildings) trace marvellous designs along valleys and plains and everywhere there abound Zibibbo grapes as big as plums, marvellous caper plants and olive tree. Those who wish to spend a real period of peace and have a different kind of holiday alternating a wonderful sea with an unusual countryside can easily lodge in "Dammusi" supplied with modern comforts and at the same time enjoy real human uses and customs.