Long ago, among the palaces carved by the light of Scicli, lived a young girl; she had a great heart, but it was invisible to the world: no one noticed the profound beauty within her soul. Every day, at sunset, she would silently climb toward the church of San Matteo and there, hidden behind a column, she would formulate a thought, a prayer, or a desire that no one heard. One winter night, when the sky seemed to dim along with the stars, the young woman never returned home. But in the morning, upon the stone kissed by the first light, when the faithful went to mass, they found something extraordinary on the church parvis: a golden heart, chiseled with Baroque scrolls, pulsing with its own light as if it were alive. It was there, perfect, as if it had been born from the stone itself, from silence, or perhaps… from a love never revealed. It was the tear of a love that had found its form because it had decided to stay alive forever. Since then, it is said that Scicli guards the hearts of women whom the world does not recognize, and that sometimes, when a soul is so beautiful it cannot be ignored, destiny transforms it into Baroque gold: the most eternal of languages. Gold that still pulses in a jewel forged from the silence of light with passion—the passion that distinguishes the Alma collection.