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A super comfortable 3-star hotel. Rooms have refrigerators, modern baths and shuttered geranium-clad windows overlooking the Gulf of Castellammare. A good base for visiting northwest Sicily.

Modern rooms, a terrace, a small garden restaurant and easy access to the beach.

The Ursuline sisters run a hotel in a restored 19th-century palazzo on Ortygia. Some of the modern 18 rooms offer air conditioning and a sea view. Books up quickly.

This large modern building sits in the forest above Zafferana Etnea. Many of the furnished rooms have terraces and views of Mount Etna or the sea.

It’s not the building that is historic here, but the rooms themselves. Each room is an installation piece created by a modern artist, with evolving designs that guests are asked to participate in. Each room has a sea-front terrace. Within easy reach of Cefalù, the Madonie mountains and the Fiumara d’Arte sculpture garden.

Choose from self-catering apartments with private terrace or a B&B option on Chiara Agnellos’ working farm. Buildings open onto courtyards perfumed with jasmine and honeysuckle. Minimum two night stay.

The owners offer eight apartments equipped with refrigerators for a minimum stay of 3 nights. Home-cooked meals and trips to Syracuse can be arranged.

This villa was confiscated from a Mafia boss. Facilities now include a pool, horseback riding, and the opportunity to participate in the grape harvest.