Welcome to Al Fresco!
You will find Al Fresco giardino, pizza e bistrot: a space where you can relax amidst conversation and good food, savouring top-quality Sicilian ingredients and our island’s Slow Food presidia.

Do you already know its history?
Al Fresco garden, pizza and bistro is located inside Casa San Francesco, a former 17th-century convent that now houses various activities of a social nature managed by the Rigenerazioni Onlus company and the Don Calabria per il Sociale Foundation. Al Fresco is one of these, and was born after the experience of Cotti In Fragranza, the baked goods workshop born inside Palermo’s Malaspina juvenile prison and which has its second headquarters here.

Today, this splendid building is also home to Casa San Francesco Rooms, a place for conscious travellers who want to make travel an opportunity to meet and enrich themselves as human beings, experiencing the city in a sustainable manner and close to the community.

All activities, starting with our bistro, are part of training courses that aim at the stable employment inclusion of people serving sentences, at risk of social marginalisation, who have decided to give themselves a second chance.

Discover also our social library, immerse yourself in our permanent exhibitions and treat yourself to a good and genuine break, while contributing to a project that values solidarity and mutual support.

Discover them all and help us share goodness!

Enjoy and good relax