travel42 Hotel Review: Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel

Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Hugging a rocky but beautiful bay, on the other side of the strand from the showier Grand Hotel Mazzaro Sea Palace, this sultry Sicilian siren continues to lure a well-to-do crowd, many of whom have been visiting its antique-filled hallways and idyllic and coveted cove for decades.

Built in 1919 as a private residence for a well-connected English engineer—he designed the circumnavigational train that looped Mount Etna—this expanded mansion offers up shade...