The Rossa Mediterranea is a breed of domestic goat from the Mediterranean island of Sicily, in southern Italy.
It derives from the Damascus goat of Syria and the eastern Mediterranean,[3] and is thus also known as the Derivata di Siria.
It is raised mainly in Sicily, but also in Basilicata and Calabria in southern mainland Italy.
[4][5] The Rossa Mediterranea is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders.
The milk has an average of 4.11% fat and 3.53% protein, and is used predominantly for cheese-making.