San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel
Four Seasons · Taormina, Centro Storico · Sicily · Taormina & the east coast
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because a Dominican convent of the fourteenth century became a grand hotel in the nineteenth and Four Seasons runs it now – cloisters, terraces and 111 rooms above the Ionian Sea with Etna behind – and the house holds five-star standing, the only one on the island distinguished at the Guide's highest level.
- A fourteenth-century Dominican convent on Piazza San Domenico, at the western end of Corso Umberto, turned grand hotel in the nineteenth century; run by Four Seasons since its reopening.
- 111 rooms and suites in the convent and the grand hotel wing, on terraces above the Ionian Sea with Etna behind; the cloisters, the gardens and the pool on the edge of the drop.
- Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection – the only hotel in Sicily at that level; holds five-star standing.
The neighborhood
Taormina, Centro Storico
The town on the terraces of Monte Tauro sits two hundred meters above the sea and holds two of the three hotels. It takes in Corso Umberto from Porta Messina to Porta Catania, the ancient theater with Etna and the bay in its frame, Piazza IX Aprile and its belvedere, the Villa Comunale gardens and the convent on Piazza San Domenico at the western end.
- Corso Umberto and Porta Catania, at the door.
- The ancient theater, a walk along the corso.
- The cable car to Mazzarò and Isola Bella, a few minutes from the piazza.
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