SAN DOMENICO PALACE, TAORMINA Bentornati: Welcome Back
With just 111 guest rooms and suites, the atmosphere is intimate, as
building in Italian Liberty style (today’s Grand Hotel Wing) adjacent
though returning to a treasured friend’s seaside home each year.
to accommodations converted from former quarters in the Ancient
The most coveted room is the Royal Suite, with principal rooms all
Convent Wing. It soon became a highlight on the Grand Tour,
opening onto a large terrace and plunge pool with views of Mount
favoured by royalty and nobility and increasingly, a colourful cast of
Etna, the ancient Greek Theatre and the Ionian Sea. Terraces are
artists, writers and Hollywood stars. Set amid lush gardens
lined with glass for infinity views, and in all, there are 19 rooms with
reimagined by acclaimed Italian landscape architect Marco Bay
private plunge pools.
with sweeping sea views, the Hotel pairs contemporary art with antiquities and architectural relics throughout.
Built on the site of a 14th century Dominican convent, the San Domenico Hotel first came to life in 1896 with the addition of a new