CHEF LUIGI FERRARO

Born in Cassano Allo Ionio, but describes himself as a world citizen. He lives and he works wherever his career takes him: From Sharm-el-sheik to Stuttgart, Bangkok, London, Paris, George Town, St Petersburg, New York amongst many others. After five years in Moscow and almost two in New Delhi where he fulfilled the role of Italian Chef at the “Sorrento”, utmost elegant Italian Restaurant at the luxurious Shangri-la’s-eros Hotel, Chef Ferraro has recently landed at the Gulf Of Oman to revamp the Capri Court, Italian Restaurant at the lavish Shangri-la Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa.

Sibari was a town in Magna Graecia, founded on the Ionian Sea between the Rivers Crati and Coscile by a group of Achaeans from the Peloponnese. Today, it is a hamlet in the municipality of Cassano all’ionio. Its economy is mainly based on tourism, resulting from the Laghi di Sibari and Sibari Marina dotted with resorts, and agriculture, which produces citrus fruit, olives and rice.

The growth of the town centre was due to the reclamation work financed by the government through the work of the Opera Sila consortium, as a result of which the Piana di Sibari, the largest in Calabria, has been brought to light along the lower reaches of the Crati. Prolungamento Strada and Casabianca, and later Stombi, arose as hamlets to the municipality of Cassano all’ionio, a few miles north of the archaeological sites of Parco del Cavallo.