By Oriana La Marca

My Sicilian Love Affair

Food. Fashion. Travel. Traditions.
A love letter to the island that made me who I am.

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Aerial view of a Sicilian harbor town at golden hour
The Story

It Started With
a Love Affair

My Sicilian Love Affair is everything I know and love about Sicily, wrapped into one place. The food. The fashion. The traditions. The people. The sunsets that stop you in your tracks.


My mom is from Castellammare del Golfo. My dad is from Porto Empedocle. I still go back to my grandparents' house that they built in 1973, before they came to America. When I'm there, it's like walking into a time capsule. My zia lives across the street. My grandfather knows everybody.

"Every summer, 15 or 20 times, people would ask: where do I go? What do I eat? Where do I stay? So I said, let me just take you there myself."

That's how this started. Years of sharing my Sicily with friends and family, turned into something real. Guided tours. A collection of ceramics handmade in Burgio. Home fragrances inspired by the scents of the island. And a community of people who feel the same pull to this place that I do.

What We Do

Four Passions, One Love

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Travel

Small group guided tours of Sicily. Not the tourist version. My version. The places I know and love, the people I grew up with, the restaurants you won't find on Google.

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Fashion

Handcrafted jewelry with semi-precious gemstones and Sicilian ceramics. Leather bags from Florence. Each piece designed to feel like a little piece of the Mediterranean on your wrist.

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Food & Home

Sicilian extra virgin olive oil. Home fragrances like Passione Al Limone and Testa di Moro. Ceramic diffusers handmade in Sicily. The scents and flavors that bring you back.

A Day in Sicily

What a Typical Day Looks Like

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Morning

The Bar Where Everyone Knows Your Name

Fresh cornetti and espresso at the bar where everybody knows your name. The barista doesn't ask what you want — he already knows.

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Midday

Hidden Beaches & Ancient Temples

Hidden beaches, ancient temples, villages where time forgot. The kind of places that aren't on any list — because the people who know them don't tell.

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Sunset

Aperitivo Above the Sea

Aperitivo on a terrace overlooking the sea. The sky turns orange and pink and you understand, maybe for the first time, what it means to slow down.

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Evening

Dinner at Someone's Cousin's Trattoria

Dinner at a trattoria where the chef is someone's cousin. No menu. Just whatever came in fresh. The table fills up with plates and the night doesn't end early.

Sunsets & Secrets of Sicily

Come to Sicily
With Me

Seven days. No more than six people. I'm there with you the entire time, taking you to the places that I go when I go home. My friends. My restaurants. My hidden corners.


This isn't a touristy experience. It's a real one. We eat where the locals eat. We watch the sunset with an aperitivo in places that don't have a sign out front. We drive from Castellammare to Palermo, down to San Vito Lo Capo, and everywhere in between.

7

Days in Sicily

Based in Castellammare del Golfo, with day trips across the western coast

6

Guests Maximum

Small and intimate. You're not a number, you're with me

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Personal Guide

Me. My connections. My family's relationships built over generations

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Memories

The kind you'll still talk about years from now

Traditional Sicilian fishing boat on turquoise water near sea caves
“
One of the best vacations we've ever been on in our lives.
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— Private tour guests, October 2025

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ZAGARA Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The Lifestyle Collection

Bring Sicily
Into Your Home

My mom and I share the same mission: keep the Made in Italy quality alive. Her collections of home fragrances, linens, and ceramics are all made in Italy or Sicily. Together we created Passione Al Limone, a fragrance inspired by my love for lemons, born during a mother-daughter trip to Capri.


ZAGARA extra virgin olive oil, straight from Sicily. Testa di Moro ceramic diffusers. Lemon-scented room sprays that make you feel like you're standing in a grove overlooking the sea. These aren't just products. They're the scents and flavors that bring you back.


Shop the Collection
Sicilian Ceramic Bracelet
Vibrant Palermo street market with hanging lemons and peppers
Quattro Stagioni Ceramic Masks
Rustic outdoor dinner table under a grapevine pergola in Sicily
Ornate Sicilian Baroque church interior with golden frescoes
Aperol Spritz and bruschetta on a stone terrace at Mediterranean sunset
The Philosophy

What Are We
Doing Here?

I talk about this with my family all the time. We're sitting on the muretto, the wall, watching four old people at a table on the beach. Bottle of wine. A little focaccia. Playing cards. And we look at each other and say: that's what matters.


We're constantly torn between the New York hustle and what our bodies and our insides are actually made for. Sitting on a beach. Drinking a bottle of wine. Playing cards. Being with the people you love.

"When I land in Sicily, a switch just goes off. Good food, good wine, good company. That's all that matters."

My Sicilian Love Affair is about remembering that. Whether you come to Sicily with me, wear a bracelet that reminds you of your nonna, or light a candle that smells like a lemon grove. It's about slowing down and connecting to what's real.

Bloom and Glow — Colorful Stacked Bracelets

Good food, good wine, good company.
That's all that matters.