a.d. 1768 BoutiqueHotel

What an amazing place! My wife and I spent 3 nights here in early September and could not have had a better experience with the hotel. Our room was right next to the sitting room with the incredible ceiling frescoes, and our own ceiling was gorgeous, with a lovely balcony right off the Duomo piazza (perfect location). The entire hotel is creatively appointed with a mix of traditional and modern art that is both beautiful and fun. Breakfasts were the best we've had in nearly 2 months in Sicily (so far), and this has been our favorite hotel. For comparison, we stayed at the stellar and vastly more expensive Villa Athena hotel in Agrigento, and still liked this one more. But the best part is the staff, who are uniformly friendly and helpful. This proved to be very important for us, because my wife succumbed to E coli food poisoning, mostly likely from contaminated lettuce at a restaurant in town (it's an unquestionably excellent establishment so I assume contaminated supplies but don't know; just bad luck). She was extremely ill and didn't recover for about 2 weeks (long after we left), and the staff was as attentive and kind as could be, offering to bring up a glass of wine for me to have with dinner that I brought back to the room (and if you're going to be sick in a hotel bed, there's no better place). They were also very helpful with parking advice, including patiently helping me deal with 2 parking tickets I stupidly racked up. Thanks to the manager (owner) and staff for everything!