Olive-groves, with sturdy and wrinkled trees, extend as far as the eye can see around Cassaro, and immediately give us an idea of what the main economic activities are of this commune. The smallest one in Syracuse province. Anyone coming there in autumn easily comes across groups of hard-working people intent on harvesting the precious drupes, and nobody must miss the opportunity to stock up with the nectar of the olives, which has been produced here since time immemorial.
Besides, how can one resist the inviting goodness of a slice of fresh bread seasoned with a dash of scented oil? This is well known to the people of Cassaro, who have always been a people of farmers, experts on simple and strong flavours.
Like Cassaro itself, with intersecting roads and low, solid houses, a thoroughfare and a piazza for evening walks and a main church for Sunday. It is a village 'all of a piece', with just a thousand inhabitants. Here the stranger immediately stands out, and he or she is looked at with kind curiosity by those who are going along the streets, as if they were almost amazed that someone might want to come as far as here. In an itinerary in the Iblei, however, the small village of Cassaro also has something to offer. There is the memory of the Baroque reconstruction, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when in the anxious desire to rebuild fine Baroque decorations were not overlooked in churches (one should also see the Sant'Antonio church, which you get to up a big decorated flight of steps, San Sebastiano and Madonna delle Grazie) as well as in lay ones.
There are precious art nouveau details from the early twentieth century, when the village experienced a major architectural flourishing and small and big buildings were enriched with volutes, floral motifs and stone flourishes. Then there is the valley of the river Anapo, which you also get to from here, with all its natural treasures: the site is protected by the constraints of a nature reserve that protect the significant biodiversity of the valley: in every part of it - in the crystalline water of the river and along its banks, in the brushwood as in the rocky walls - there is perpetuated the life of the various animal and plant species.
The commune of Cassaro has less of 1.000 inhabitants, is situated in the province of Siracusa (in the south of Sicily) and the nearly communes are Buscemi, Ferla, Palazzolo Acreide and Sortino.
