Surrounded by beautifully decorated old houses, you feel you have stepped into a page from a fairytale book. All you need to do next is lose yourself in the maze of cobblestoned streets and narrow lanes and be surprised at every turn.The unique feature of this village are the magnificent and well preserved ‘Sgrafitto’ houses, with beautifully painted facades dating back to the first half of the 17th century CE. The houses, built of stone, lime and wood, have thick coarsely plastered walls washed in white/off white/ light brown, which provide an ideal background for murals executed predominantly in subtle pastel colors and shades. While ‘Sgraffito’ decorations are sometimes freehand paintings and stencils executed on plaster, more often these are etchings in which the outer layer of plaster, while it is still wet, is consummately scrapped away in beautiful and complex patterns to create the images.