Luxury villas in Ragusa, historic houses and stays by the sea
The Iblean plateau is the south-eastern corner of Sicily: pale limestone rather than the black lava of Etna, dry-stone walls across the fields, and towns rebuilt in Baroque style after the earthquake of 1693. Six properties sit within this small area, and they are not all inland. Two are in Ragusa itself โ Villa Boscarino, a late nineteenth-century residence whose private chapel now serves as the breakfast room, and Palazzo Degli Antoci, a noble building redesigned by the architect Paolo Lanzerotti in the early twentieth century. A hermitage of the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries stands in the countryside south of the city, and two more are on the coast at Donnalucata, the fishing village familiar to viewers of the Inspector Montalbano series.
Distances are short here by Sicilian standards, but a car still decides how much of the plateau you actually see: the Baroque towns are inland and the beaches are a separate drive. Choosing between a room in Ragusa and a garden that opens onto the sand is a decision about the shape of your days, not about comfort. Sicily Luxury does not represent these properties and does not sell rooms: we recommend, and recommending means leaving things out.
If the days themselves are still open, our selected experiences in Sicily are the place to begin. The six entries below are there to be compared, not ranked.
