Merges defines Mediterranean holiday home Mixture address cultural influences in Pantelleria. The island belongs to Italy, or, more precisely, to Sicily. But the truth is that Pantelleria is geographically closer to Tunisia (Africa so) than European soil. And the cultural mix resulting from this vantage point is manifested in many different ways - including in architecture. Flavio Albanese settled among the ruins of an old farm on the island the colossal project of his summer retreat. Managing Partner ASA Studio Albanese, the architect did more than restore the thick walls that were still standing on the ground. He took the fragments of history, as he likes to call them, to assemble a particular kind of village atop a hill...