Villa Politi
Created by the Austrian noblewoman Maria Teresa Laudien in 862, after having met the man of her life, Salvatore Politi, a Syracusan painter, Villa Politi immediately became the leading hotel on an international level for style and refinement. Meeting place for Art, Culture, Politics, Nobility: Princes and Kings from all over Europe, D'Annunzio, Ojetti, Vergani, Sir Winston Churchill, up to Pope Giovanni Paolo ll, the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azelio Ciampi, the President of the Italian Council Matteo Renzi. Charmed women like Monica Bellucci Said W. Churchill during her vacation in April 1955 - I have never rested so well in my life.
Edmondo De Amicis writes in 1906 - delightful hours I spent on the terrace of the Grand Hotel Villa Politi ah this stately villa that rises above the ancient ruins on the millenary rocks used by the Greeks "Syracuse seen from this terrace seems to float, as if sleeping, dreaming its two thousand and seven hundred years of history ".
Source website: http://www.villapoliti.com
Included in the list of listed architectural assets (DA DDS 9023 of 17/02/03)
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
Photo: Ignazio Caloggero
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