Country stays near Noto, between vineyards and the sea
Three addresses, and none of them sits in the historic centre. Villa Giulia is an old Sicilian hamlet conceived as a country residence, among vineyards and olive groves on the hills of the San Lorenzo estate. San Corrado di Noto is a resort built on a former farmhouse, with twenty-six suites and eight villas set among orange and olive trees. Cirera is a bed and breakfast in the countryside near Marzamemi, with a pool, a garden and a sun terrace. The Baroque is not outside the window here: you drive to it, and in the evening you come back to the quiet.
A car is therefore not optional, and that is the real difference between these three and a room in town. What holds them together is not a category โ a hamlet, a resort and a bed and breakfast have little in common โ but the same decision to sleep in the country and to measure the day in kilometres rather than in streets. Sicily Luxury holds no stake in these properties: it selects and points, and the stay is arranged directly with the house.
If the town itself is the point of the journey, this is not the page. The churches, the staircase and why Noto is built of that stone are covered in our guide to the Baroque of Noto; of the three, the one with the fullest hotel service is San Corrado di Noto. For how this corner fits with the rest of the south-east, the wider picture is on Val di Noto.
