Acitrezza is a small fishing village, it was chosen by the writer Giovanni Verga to set his celebrated novel I Malavoglia: the little harbor with the multi-colored boats seems inhabited by the ghosts of his characters. The village is dominated on the seaside by the Rocks of the Cyclops, a mass of black lava rising up from the crystalline water. Beside the rocks sits the Lachea island, now a biology research station managed by the University of Catania.