Near the harbour stands the Casa del Nespolo, a small museum dedicated to two works that made Acitrezza famous beyond Sicily. Giovanni Verga set his 1881 novel I Malavoglia — considered one of the great works of Italian realism, later translated as The House by the Medlar Tree — in this village, following a fishing family's struggles with poverty, debt, and misfortune. The medlar tree of the title still grows outside.
Luchino Visconti later adapted the novel as La Terra Trema (1948), filming entirely on location here and casting local fishermen in their own roles. The museum displays photographs, film stills, and materials related to both the book and the film. It is a genuine literary pilgrimage site for anyone who has read Verga, and a window into what village life here looked like in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.