{"type":"city","city":"Sicily","citySlug":"sicily","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily","description":"Taormina earns its reputation the hard way — through sheer geological theatrics, a Greek amphitheater with Etna framed in the proscenium, and a century of hoteliers who understood that the view was already doing most of the work. What separates the best properties here from mere backdrop exploitation is how they engage with the town's layered history. The San Domenico Palace, converted by Four Seasons and redesigned by Patricia Anastassiadis, threads its public spaces through a fifteenth-century Dominican convent without erasing the evidence of what came before — cloisters intact, frescoes preserved, the garden terrace suspended above the Ionian coast. The Grand Hotel Timeo, the older Belmond property on the hill, occupies a Belle Époque villa near the ancient theater itself and has historically attracted the kind of guest who wants the archaeology close at hand. Villa Sant'Andrea, Belmond's second Taormina address, sits lower, directly on the beach at Mazzarò, and operates at a different emotional register — more private, less theatrical. The Ashbee Hotel, named for Arts and Crafts architect C.R. Ashbee who spent time in Sicily in the early twentieth century, is the most architecturally self-aware of the group, its interiors nodding to the Arts and Crafts lineage while remaining genuinely Sicilian in material and color.\n\nAway from Taormina, the island's design ambition spreads across terrain that resists easy categorization. Monaci delle Terre Nere is built into the lava-stone terraces of Etna's lower slopes near Zafferana Etnea, its architecture reading as an extension of volcanic geology — dark basalt walls, working farmland, rooms that feel carved rather than constructed. In Noto, the Baroque UNESCO town in the southeast, Il San Corrado di Noto occupies a converted monastery with a severity of restoration that suits the town's amber limestone grandeur, while Q92 Noto Hotel takes a more contemporary approach in the same setting, its interiors lighter and more explicitly modern. On the western coast near Sciacca, the Verdura Resort was designed by Flavio Albanese for Rocco Forte and sits on a private stretch of coastline, its architecture deliberately low-slung and Mediterraneanist, avoiding the resort bombast that might have overwhelmed the landscape.\n\nPalermo and the interior complete a picture of an island more architecturally varied than its postcard image suggests. Villa Igiea, the Rocco Forte property in Palermo's Acquasanta district, was originally designed in 1900 by Ernesto Basile in the Liberty style — Sicily's answer to Art Nouveau — and its restoration has carefully maintained that ornamental language. Masseria Susafa, deep in the Madonie mountains near Polizzi Generosa, represents the island's agrarian tradition at its most uncompromising: a working grain farm converted with minimal intervention, its architecture essentially unchanged for centuries.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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The building's Sicilian limestone exterior, with its carved corbels and wrought-iron balconies holding terracotta pots of citrus, belongs entirely to the surrounding city; inside, the approach shifts register dramatically.\n\nThe interiors carry the atmosphere of an eccentric collector's residence rather than a conventional hotel room scheme — plaster cast busts on painted pedestals, paintings displayed on gilded easels, lengths of patterned fabric hung as headboards against walls washed in dusty Venetian blue or terracotta. The salon deploys a mix of mid-century Italian curved sofas upholstered in floral toile and candy-stripe fabric alongside a glazed vitrine housing a reproduction Nike of Samothrace, the whole room anchored by hexagonal cotto tiles and lit by a Murano glass chandelier. Bamboo and rattan chairs in the suites introduce a warmer note against exposed local stone walls. The effect, deliberately assembled rather than designed to a single brief, is more grand private house than hotel — as if the Baroque city outside had found its way into the upholstery.","snippet":"A seventeenth-century palazzo across from Noto's UNESCO cathedral, styled as a collector's residence with a rooftop overlooking the Baroque facade.","bestFor":"Collectors and aesthetes visiting Sicily","vibe":"Baroque-inflected · curated","highlights":["Rooftop terrace overlooking UNESCO Baroque cathedral facade","Interiors styled as eccentric collector's residence with art and curiosities","Seventeenth-century palazzo on Noto's most theatrically composed street"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$366","pricePerNightExclTax":"$366","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujifo042p15ymlse8u0ck1713361049419_27eca465-9df3-4f37-be63-4197e5bd34be.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Q92 Noto Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Q92 Noto Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Q92 Noto Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujo7i054h15ym8t6tcffk1713361050019_157c44c9-484e-4059-b5b5-076d02621504.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Q92 Noto Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Q92 Noto Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Q92 Noto Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uju5b066715ymvxzih4il1713361048613_031c3585-16c3-4adf-8fa0-5241079a0eca.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Q92 Noto Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Q92 Noto Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Q92 Noto Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujzzc078315ymfz70tiee1713361050704_18b0ed61-4458-4f4d-ae75-19e3d9550885.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Q92 Noto Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Q92 Noto Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Q92 Noto Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk5wt089v15ymg1ph8uu51713361051326_a93a813a-51c9-41ee-804d-3ed5f560e800.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Q92 Noto Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Q92 Noto Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Q92 Noto Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hotel Villa Ducale","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/hotel-villa-ducale","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Taormina • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Taormina","designSummary":"Perched above the rooftops of Taormina on Sicily's eastern escarpment, with Etna's silhouette filling one horizon and the Ionian Sea stretching to the other, the building that houses Hotel Villa Ducale was originally a nineteenth-century aristocratic villa — and the family that owns it, the Quartucci, have made almost no effort to disguise that fact. The terraced gardens descend the hillside in a sequence of dry-stone retaining walls, terracotta amphoras, and wrought-iron balustrades that feel more private estate than managed hotel, the ochre render and Roman-tile roofline absorbing into the surrounding town rather than asserting itself above it.\n\nInside, the interiors shift register room by room, which is part of their charm. Some spaces lean into deeply saturated terracotta walls paired with arched French doors and upholstered headboards in dusty teal — a Sicilian Baroque sensibility updated with a contemporary hand. Others, particularly the attic suites, adopt a quieter Nordic-inflected palette: raked ceilings, striped linen wingback chairs, open bookshelves, and a floor lamp with a coiled iron stem that suggests something from a Milanese design catalogue. The terrace dining area, furnished with Lloyd Loom-style wicker chairs around dark timber tables, achieves what the whole property is quietly after — a setting where the architecture steps back entirely, and the coastline four hundred metres below becomes the room.","snippet":"A nineteenth-century Sicilian villa with interiors that shift between Baroque and Nordic aesthetics, perched above Taormina's rooftops.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors seeking Sicily","vibe":"Historic-intimate · layered","highlights":["Nineteenth-century aristocratic villa with original terracotta and Roman tiles","Rooms alternate between Sicilian Baroque and Nordic-minimalist design palettes","Terraced gardens descend hillside with dry-stone walls and wrought-iron balustrades"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$608","pricePerNightExclTax":"$608","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul5gw01l215zvketlo4df1713360287402_0bec6795-4c78-448a-960f-cc325c616c1c.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hotel Villa Ducale — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hotel Villa Ducale · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hotel Villa Ducale captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul8us022l15zvjhtzi7jw1713360286661_d73850a5-a253-47f2-a970-f3568ee92cdd.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hotel Villa Ducale — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hotel Villa Ducale · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hotel Villa Ducale, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulbtv02jv15zvgsqn0mzb1713360288208_c45cc361-5317-4742-818d-007ffc5ccdaf.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hotel Villa Ducale — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hotel Villa Ducale · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hotel Villa Ducale — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulerv031p15zvwvfb9qgy1713360288888_8aadffea-5632-41b6-881b-88891649c7fd.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hotel Villa Ducale — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hotel Villa Ducale · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hotel Villa Ducale, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulhsl03jx15zv4yklj1ui1713360289606_546ad3a5-5654-43d0-9e84-26f821177e12.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hotel Villa Ducale — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hotel Villa Ducale · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hotel Villa Ducale — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Il San Corrado di Noto","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/il-san-corrado-di-noto","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Noto • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Noto","designSummary":"Spread across a working masseria in the Val di Noto, where citrus groves and olive trees stretch to the low hills of southeastern Sicily's UNESCO-listed baroque heartland, Il San Corrado di Noto translates the logic of agricultural estate architecture into a contemporary resort without abandoning the grammar of the land. Terracotta-tiled roofs pitched at a traditional angle, whitewashed render, and low-slung pavilion wings arranged around a generous rectangular pool give the compound the unhurried geometry of a Sicilian country estate — the aerial view confirms a courtyard organization that would have been familiar to any nineteenth-century masseria owner, even if the cantilevered pool cabanas and sun lounger rows announce something more recent.\n\nThe interiors navigate the same tension between vernacular warmth and polished hospitality with reasonable confidence. Guest rooms carry dark-framed four-poster beds dressed in white voile, warm walnut flooring that meets limestone tile at the threshold — a detail visible in both room images — and ceiling fans that lean into the Mediterranean-colonial register rather than fighting it. The restaurant takes a more assertive position: deep-buttoned forest-green velvet banquettes, dark-wood tables, and coffered ceiling panels inlaid with decorative tile motifs pull the dining room toward a clubbier, more European luxury idiom, anchored by a large-format blue cityscape painting that reads as a nod to Noto itself. At dusk, a long infinity lap pool flanked by Phoenix palms and illuminated banana plants gives the grounds a cinematic stillness that the surrounding groves make entirely earned.","snippet":"A working Sicilian estate reimagined as a resort, with vernacular architecture and contemporary interiors set among citrus groves.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring southeastern Sicily","vibe":"Rural-luxe · understated","highlights":["Working masseria with traditional courtyard layout and contemporary design","Rooms with walnut floors, limestone thresholds, and four-poster beds","Restaurant with forest-green velvet banquettes and coffered tile ceiling"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,192","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,192","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujgmu03s115ymksf08z1e1713357646398_5947b40a-bd0e-429b-8c07-8ba9e8020e9a.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Il San Corrado di Noto — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Il San Corrado di Noto · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Il San Corrado di Noto captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujmkf04tt15ymxvzvvyut1713357647191_57b43a13-270c-4b21-b3c7-54d650eb685d.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Il San Corrado di Noto — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Il San Corrado di Noto · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Il San Corrado di Noto, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujsdv05vl15ymr8dbbtm51713357645708_ab85a289-e111-481a-b6c9-b0d21a7bc4c6.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Il San Corrado di Noto — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Il San Corrado di Noto · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Il San Corrado di Noto — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujybs06xd15ymc4yuvam41713357647911_72d5a50f-6df7-4e2b-98f2-8cf5a8138117.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Il San Corrado di Noto — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Il San Corrado di Noto · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Il San Corrado di Noto, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk45a07z315ym7yu6aat21713357648627_36effd45-33e1-4a47-86c0-1f59dc5293ce.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Il San Corrado di Noto — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Il San Corrado di Noto · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Il San Corrado di Noto — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Ashbee Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/the-ashbee-hotel","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Taormina • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Taormina","loyaltyProgram":"LHW Leaders Club","designSummary":"Perched on Taormina's clifftop above the Ionian Sea, where dry-stone terraces cascade through subtropical gardens toward a cerulean pool, a late nineteenth-century villa carries the name of Arts and Crafts pioneer Charles Robert Ashbee — the British designer who lived and worked in the town in the early 1900s and whose influence on the property's sensibility extends well beyond the nameplate. The Ashbee Hotel was established within this belle époque structure, its white-stuccoed facade and loggia roofline sitting in quiet adjacency to the domed church tower visible from the garden, the whole composition set against the Sicilian coastal ridge dropping toward Giardini Naxos below.\n\nThe interiors take a more declarative approach than the building's restrained exterior might suggest. Guestrooms are dressed in damask-effect wallcovering in warm ivory, wainscoting picked out in white, and wide-plank bleached oak floors, with purple velvet armchairs introducing a note of controlled theatre against the pale ground. The restaurant sharpens the contrast further — bold black-and-white vertical stripes covering the walls entirely, a Murano glass chandelier in deep red suspended above white-clothed tables and pale ash dining chairs, the parquet floor grounding the drama in something warmer. Outside, the terraced gardens step down through lava-stone retaining walls planted with agave and dwarf palm, stone-paved paths connecting the fountain court to the pool deck, framing a view of the bay that has drawn artists and writers to Taormina for well over a century.","snippet":"A belle époque villa honoring Arts and Crafts pioneer Ashbee, with striped interiors and clifftop gardens overlooking the Ionian Sea.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and Arts and Crafts collectors","vibe":"Theatrical-refined · coastal","highlights":["Belle époque villa named after Charles Robert Ashbee","Black-and-white striped restaurant with Murano glass chandelier","Clifftop terraced gardens descending to Ionian Sea pool"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,291","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,291","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujgnw03s515ympauj8eu41713359108420_ccd4a9e2-6efc-428d-a0c2-01b3800f4ddd.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Ashbee Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Ashbee Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Ashbee Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujml804tx15ymxaphxxjo1713359109021_73a8a60c-1dc1-4a05-88f3-b81f1cc39a81.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Ashbee Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Ashbee Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Ashbee Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujseu05vp15ymtpk4pura1713359107807_68741b61-c0fe-46fc-9ff4-383b31867fe1.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Ashbee Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Ashbee Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Ashbee Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujybw06xh15ymtgtk4qmz1713359109727_0a92026f-f111-40a0-a83d-4fddaeefc266.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Ashbee Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Ashbee Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Ashbee Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk46f07z715ymi6n5tz2x1713359110409_37d1a70f-ff26-4c8e-954a-0dc4ef80b2ce.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Ashbee Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Ashbee Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Ashbee Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Villa Igiea, A Rocco Forte Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/villa-igiea-a-rocco-forte-hotel","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Palermo • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Palermo","designSummary":"Perched on a limestone promontory above the Gulf of Palermo, its ochre-washed Liberty-style facade rising directly from the sea cliffs, this former Florio family villa carries one of the most layered histories in Sicilian hospitality. Commissioned by the Florios — the extraordinary merchant dynasty who shaped modern Sicily — and completed around 1900 to designs attributed to Ernesto Basile, the building that became Villa Igiea A Rocco Forte Hotel was originally conceived as a sanatorium before the family reclaimed it as a private residence. Basile, the Palermo architect who brought Sicilian floral ornament into conversation with Viennese Secessionism, left his mark most indelibly in the frescoed dining hall, still considered among the finest examples of Italian Liberty decoration anywhere.\n\nThe 2021 renovation, guided by Olga Polizzi with interiors developed through the Rocco Forte design team, pressed the existing architecture into a palette of sage green and warm white that complements rather than competes with Basile's plasterwork. Guestrooms alternate between two registers: some furnished with dark four-poster beds, tobacco-coloured upholstery, and rattan armchairs beneath Murano glass chandeliers in petal form; others dressed in the softer sage scheme, with upholstered headboards framed by hand-blocked fabric panels and botanical cushions drawing on the villa's garden character. 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The building's original domestic character — generous ceiling heights, plasterwork cornices, arched doorways — has been preserved rather than smoothed away, and the interiors carry that residential warmth through polished travertine floors, cane-panelled headboards, oversized wicker pendant lights, and framed panels of hand-painted Sicilian ceramic tile deployed as art objects rather than surface decoration. Colourful ceramic pine cones and pineapples drawn from the Caltagirone tradition appear on bedside tables, grounding the palette of warm sand and pale linen in something distinctly local.\n\nThe 68 rooms and suites are distributed across the villa and its lower garden annexes, most facing directly onto the Ionian Sea through arched or full-height French-doored balconies where terracotta-potted geraniums blaze against the blue. The terrace restaurant is set on a broad loggia of stone columns and canvas canopies, wrought-iron chairs pulled up to white-clothed tables overlooking the rocky islet of Isola Bella. An infinity pool at the property's upper level dissolves visually into the bay beyond — the rocky headland of Cape Sant'Andrea framing the view in a composition that no amount of careful design could improve upon.","snippet":"A preserved nineteenth-century Sicilian villa on the Ionian Sea with original architectural details and a private beach.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts seeking Sicilian coastal elegance","vibe":"Residential-luxury · Mediterranean","highlights":["Nineteenth-century villa with turreted facade on private Mazzarò beach","Interiors preserve original plasterwork, arches, and hand-painted Caltagirone ceramics","Infinity pool overlooks Isola Bella and Cape Sant'Andrea headland"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,748","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,748","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujfc703jj15ym89uhsjvv1713353430320_9f7c1ed6-ad8b-4271-9e8e-00bd12c8f9af.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujl9104l915ymwk3srn0a1713353431600_d16daf1e-ff9c-4401-8757-e68539481aa2.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujr2805n115ym7cbq9sto1713353429609_94ae7660-24f4-4110-8dd7-4ddddca8a119.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujx0906or15ym39cex6sk1713353430926_0e88cbb7-44ba-4622-b088-687ca4821d61.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk2u907qj15ymwpqy1nyv1713353432322_6dd25fe7-9e0e-482c-8211-c6c958b2a5c5.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/grand-hotel-timeo-a-belmond-hotel","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Taormina • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Taormina","designSummary":"Directly below the ancient Greek theatre of Taormina — one of the most intact Hellenistic amphitheatres in the Mediterranean, with Etna and the Ionian Sea as its permanent backdrop — a blush-pink neoclassical villa has received guests since 1873, making the Grand Hotel Timeo the oldest hotel on Sicily's most celebrated clifftop town. The aerial view confirms the relationship: theatre and hotel share the same rocky promontory, the cypress-lined gardens threading between them in a composition that feels less designed than accrued over centuries. Belmond's stewardship, which brought a careful renovation in 2012, respected that accumulated quality rather than imposing a legible contemporary signature.\n\nInside, the 70 rooms carry the atmosphere of a private Sicilian villa assembled over generations rather than dressed to a brief. Plasterwork cornices with foliate detailing crown barrel-vaulted ceilings in the upper-floor suites, while marquetry commodes, gilt-framed mirrors, and carved walnut headboards in gold-leaf baroque style populate the rooms with period furniture that sits naturally against wide-plank parquet and silk-mix drapery in warm stone and taupe. The terrace restaurant, shaded beneath a retractable white canvas canopy and strung with iron lanterns, gives onto the Strait of Messina at dusk — a dining room where the architecture defers entirely to the view. The kidney-shaped pool terrace, framed by terracotta urns and stone balustrades, extends the garden's Italianate grammar to the water's edge.","snippet":"Sicily's oldest hotel sits directly below an intact Hellenistic theatre, with Etna and the Ionian Sea as permanent backdrop.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and classical antiquity travelers","vibe":"Historic-romantic · clifftop","highlights":["Perched directly below Taormina's 2nd-century Greek theatre","Operating continuously since 1873 in a blush-pink neoclassical villa","Baroque furnishings and plasterwork cornices in 70 individually appointed rooms"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,823","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,823","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujfal03iz15ymijxs5u8s1713356700321_e8ceba00-c083-4a6f-85b7-7517a5f1288b.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujl6e04kr15ymtl03iyg91713356701904_8232a366-bdcd-4ffa-95f4-335a6b69d843.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujqzk05ml15yml2xpraec1713356701038_42e04a17-5230-4d38-83be-985397366b2f.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujwxl06od15ym35copevu1713356699512_07406242-a9fd-4c54-9949-4524523dade2.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk2rp07q315ymlrs1i7mz1713356702817_25bc4e0d-bcd5-463d-a429-be3a385985e3.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/san-domenico-palace-taormina-a-four-seasons-hotel","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Taormina • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Taormina","designSummary":"A fourteenth-century Dominican monastery perched on the edge of a Sicilian cliff, with Etna rising snow-capped to the southwest and the Ionian Sea dropping away beneath the terrace walls — this is the structural inheritance that Four Seasons accepted when it took over San Domenico Palace Taormina and undertook a years-long restoration completed in 2021. The brief was unusually demanding: animate a building that had already spent centuries accumulating gravity, without flattening what made it remarkable.\n\nThe interiors, designed by Patricia Urquiola, thread contemporary warmth through the monastery's bones rather than competing with them. Guest rooms carry upholstered headboards in taupe-toned velvet, pendant lights in blown glass, and onyx-veined marble side tables, the palette kept deliberately close to the building's own warm plasterwork so that old and new remain in quiet conversation. The restaurant preserves the original colonnaded hall with its tall arched windows and herringbone parquet floors, Urquiola adding circular iron pendant rings and loose grey armchairs that bring the room forward without disturbing its proportions. Outside, the infinity pool terrace — striped canvas umbrellas, teak loungers, a balustrade view over Giardini Naxos far below — makes the monastery's clifftop position the defining amenity. The property holds around 111 rooms across the historic convent building and a more recent wing, the two volumes visible in the exterior images as salmon-washed stucco stepping down through terraced gardens of cypress and palm.","snippet":"A restored fourteenth-century monastery on a Sicilian cliff with Urquiola interiors and views of Mount Etna.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of historic properties","vibe":"Monastic-contemporary · clifftop","highlights":["Fourteenth-century Dominican monastery restored by Four Seasons in 2021","Patricia Urquiola interiors in converted cloisters and colonnaded halls","Clifftop infinity pool terrace overlooking Giardini Naxos and Mount Etna"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,915","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,915","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujgmo03rz15ymm30hiq5u1713357396914_9cf00e2a-4b63-44a2-81f0-865d293d26ed.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujmkb04tr15ym5fcushls1713357397532_c54e6f28-6fa9-483e-aced-186969420255.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujsdt05vj15ymod7rzfqn1713357396389_b543ac58-b882-46cd-9e4c-58d8abe47d0e.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujybs06xc15ym2ad52ozp1713357398111_781a7440-2d2c-4c30-ae51-0a9fe6e19d3e.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk45207yz15ymaaav32eo1713357398789_af3a618b-b4df-4c61-bfd1-01891a5860c8.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Masseria Susafa","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/italy/sicily/masseria-susafa","city":"Sicily","cityHeader":"Sicily • Polizzi Generosa • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Polizzi Generosa","designSummary":"Somewhere in the wheat-rolling interior of Sicily, halfway between Palermo and the Madonie mountains above Polizzi Generosa, an eighteenth-century working masseria was quietly transformed into one of the island's most grounded rural retreats. Masseria Susafa has been in the same family for generations, and the conversion into a small hotel — twelve rooms distributed across low stone buildings thataterra-cotta-tiled roofs tie together — was handled with the restraint of people who understood what they already had. The rubble-stone walls, which carry the warm buff tone of local limestone, were left entirely intact, their roughness framing doorways fitted with dark-painted timber and original iron hardware.\n\nInside, the approach divides usefully between two registers. Older rooms layer terracotta brick floors with antique walnut commodes, oval mirrors in warm-toned frames, and ochre wool throws folded at the bed's foot — the atmosphere of a Sicilian country house assembled over time rather than designed in one pass. Newer rooms strip things back: whitewashed plaster, black-steel sliding wardrobe frames, sisal underfoot, and exposed stone walls left raw beside the bed. The former winery, its barrel-vaulted ceiling now whitened and fitted with pendant lamps, serves as the bar, oak casks flanking mid-century armchairs in mustard and red. 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Donna Carmela Resort & Lodges takes its name from the noblewoman who once presided over this estate near Riposto, and the layering of periods is the property's defining architectural argument — the original tiled-roof villa with its rendered facades and tall shuttered windows set against pavilion-style guest lodges whose exposed concrete ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glazing, and wide-plank oak floors belong firmly to a contemporary Italian design sensibility.\n\nThe lodges carry the more resolved interiors: raw concrete soffits left deliberately unfinished, dark-veined stone panels used as vertical headboard inserts, steel-framed furniture in dusty blue upholstery, and pale oak joinery forming open dressing rooms that blur the boundary between sleeping and bathing spaces. Outside, lava-stone retaining walls enclose lawns planted with Canary Island date palms, citrus trees, and bougainvillea — a garden that feels more North African than European in its botanical ambition. 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The crescent-shaped pool, fringed by a double row of mature palms reflected in water the colour of pale jade, has become the property's most reproduced image — and from the thatched restaurant terrace above the links, where the golf course designed by Kyle Phillips runs directly to the cliff edge, the Mediterranean stretches north toward the Sicilian interior mountains in one continuous, unhurried panorama.","snippet":"Rocco Forte's 2009 resort on 230 Sicilian hectares features Pedone's horizontal architecture and Polizzi's warm, edited interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of Italian interiors","vibe":"Minimalist-Mediterranean · unhurried","highlights":["230 hectares of private Sicilian coastline with golf course to cliff edge","Sandstone blocks step horizontally across landscape, echoing agricultural terracing","Interiors by Olga Polizzi: ikat textiles, rattan, four-poster beds, pale 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Olga Polizzi, Rocco Forte Hotels' director of design and the creative intelligence behind most of the group's interiors, approached the brief as she might a private commission — grounding each villa in the agricultural landscape rather than imposing upon it, with warm sand-coloured render and dark-framed glazing that echoes the colours of the surrounding terrain at dusk.\n\nInside, the palette is deliberately residential: wide-plank oak floors in a grey-washed finish, upholstered bed frames in geometric jacquard weaves of teal and ivory, and accent cushions in chartreuse that pick up the colour of the surrounding citrus groves. Tufted linen benches, ceramic table lamps with a hand-made quality, and woven rattan pendants over the outdoor dining terraces carry the same unhurried domesticity. 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