The "Valore Paese - FARI" project, launched in 2015 by Agenzia del Demanio in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, was aimed at enhancing and rescuing from degradation state-owned properties located in absolutely beautiful and evocative settings and entrusted in concession to a wide range of realities related to the fields of culture, environment, leisure and sports.

The project was answered by the young architects who participated in the Lighthouse Sea Hotel competition, organized by YAC - Young Architects Competitions - with the collaboration of Agenzia del Demanio and thanks to the support of SIA GUEST (Salone Internazionale dell'Ospitalità) - Fiera di Rimini.The competition, which ended in February 2016, was focused on a lighthouse located a few kilometers from Syracuse's historic center, on the Murro di Porco cliff. Once inhabited, with the advent of modern technologies the Murro di Porco Lighthouse has undergone an inexorable process of abandonment. Being reduced to a simple lantern, the lighthouse has undergone a condition of progressive degradation, common to many coastal buildings.

The aim of the competition, starting from an innovative and environmentally sustainable business idea - as it already happens in Europe, U.S., Canada and Australia, which have long experimented with the lighthouse accommodation model - was to requalify the signal tower, transforming it into a tourist-hotel structure with a "green" focus, taking advantage of its valuable location and proximity to the sea.

The jury, composed of eminent personalities from the international architectural scene, such as Manuel Aires Mateus (Studio Aires Mateus), Fabrizio Barozzi (Studio Barozzi Veiga), Pierluigi Cervellati (Cervellati Associati, Alessandro Marata (CNAPPC), Bruno Messina (UNICIT), Matteo Agnoletto (UNIBO), Roberto Reggi (Agenzia del Demanio) and Giancarlo Garozzo (Municipality of Syracuse), shortlisted the winning projects, appreciating their ability to decline the idea of sustainable tourism in the cultural and natural context of the site and the creativity of the proposed solutions.

The first prize was won by the Italian-Portuguese team Maresia: Leonardo Marchesi, Jorge Soares Mendes. Second prize went to a Spanish team composed of Sevak Asatryan, Alvaro Olivares, Esther Sanchis and Eduardo Sancho. Third prize was awarded to the Italian team Aut-Aut; Jonathan Lazar, Davide Troiani, Edoardo Capuzzo Dolcetta, Gabriele Capobianco.

Finalists included the Portuguese team Fundamentals, with Paulo Lopes and Samuel Pereira Dias