Although Daedalus built the labyrinth in Crete, it is now on the other side of the Ionian Sea that an intricate, inward-looking construction rises, opening out to the surroundings on only one of its sides, towards the sea horizon. With the simplicity of traditional bagli, this summer villa in the Val di Noto takes up the entire plot, and the thick walls that insulate it from the exterior fold and bend to delimit the rooms. An unroofed central gallery – with turns that widen and narrow down like an alleyway – acts as the spine of the night zone – composed of five independent bedrooms equipped with small private patios – and leads to the living room and the kitchen, in connection with the large veranda with swimming pool and a small courtyard into which the stairs to the upper terrace are fitted. The earthy colors of the surfaces, the continuous pavement of light-toned concrete, and the use of porous volcanic stone in the open-air spaces, not to mention the effort to hide the glazings from outsiders’ views, link the complex to the landscape of the most vernacular Sicily and the most mythical Mediterranean.