Gattopardo Museum in Santa Margherita del Belice
The Museo del Gattopardo was born in honor of the famous writer Tomasi di Lampedusa, who spent in Santa Maria del Belice, between six and twenty years, their own summers. The museum is housed in the Filangeri Cutò Palace, which in Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece "il Gattopardo" has become the Donnafugata palace.
This is a museum built entirely around the famous novel "Il Gattopardo" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Here, for example, you can admire the original manuscript of the work with the corrections made by the author up to the final draft. Inside display cases are also exhibited the writer's letters, notes, documentation and period photos, while multimedia stations bring to life the critical essays and films dedicated to the work. An absolutely unpublished document is the tape with the writer's voice that accompanies the visitor's journey. It is a unique recording, born for fun one morning in 1956, when Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi received a tape recorder as a gift from his adoptive father and, to prove its correct functioning, he had the idea of recording his voice while reciting one of his tales entitled "Lighea".
