Pantelleria, Italy

Parco dei Sesi

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR240.35), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Lava first sight

Setting

Piccolo island perch

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Adults-only Parco dei Sesi is small, dark and handsome, with its 12 keys, volcanic-rock exterior and Sicilian good looks. Individually styled bedrooms are an easy-on-the-eye mix of antiques and contemporary artwork from the owners’ collection; some enamour with rooftop terraces or deep soaking tubs, too. The convivial dining pergola hosts alfresco meals and aperitivi of garden-fresh produce, homemade pizza and signature sbagliati, in between local adventures, strolls to the beach or spiritual wellness sessions. Prepare to be smitten.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

12, including three suites.

Check–Out

10am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Parco dei Sesi include a local breakfast with homemade cakes, made-to-order eggs, Sicilian bread, fresh fruit and ricotta. There are minimum-stay requirements between three and six nights depending on the month.

Also

Unfortunately, this island basecamp isn’t suitable if you have reduced mobility.

Hotel closed

For 2025, the hotel is open from 18 April to 2 November.

At the hotel

Art gallery, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning and ceiling fan, and Grown Alchemist bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Views of the volcanic scenery have a restorative quality at Parco dei Sesi, as do its immaculately styled interiors. Bedrooms adopt a less-is-more approach with washed walls, soft shades of pistachio and cream, and handpicked furnishings and artwork from owners Margot and Massimiliano’s collection. The Junior Suite Agave is a sweet combination of peachy pinks and murano-glass mushroom lamps, and its bathroom features a central open rainfall shower with a gilded head. Worthy of a goddess — Venus, to be precise — the Master Suite Venere has its own sea-gazing rooftop terrace and private garden; inside you’ll find view-framing arched windows and a skylight-crowned heated pool.

Poolside

The turquoise slice of pool contrasts the terrace’s dark volcanic-rock walls and the moody mountains that rise up around the retreat. At its edges, rattan and stone sunloungers are canopied by a palm-frond-roofed pergola with ricotta-hued drapes. It’s picturesque at all hours, but swing by at sunset for golden-light-washed dips.

Packing tips

A sunset-chasing streak for golden hour by the pool and an appreciation for screen-free distractions.

Also

Staff can arrange reiki, sound healing and massages with local botanicals in their treatment room. You’ll find further spirituality in yoga sessions, guided meditations and tarot reading, which take place on a sea-breeze-tickled rooftop terrace.

Children

This island idyll is for adults only.

Sustainability efforts

Parco dei Sesi takes sustainability cues from its Pantelleria setting: everything on the island is crafted by hand, with no trucks or machinery, and the estate’s olive oil and caper production uses centuries-old farming techniques. The hotel eschews all plastic, reduces its energy consumption, adopts a farm-to-table ethos and supports the local community. Fresh produce is sourced from the island or from the hotel’s kitchen garden on bigger sister Sicily.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

You’ll dine all together in the hotel’s pergola, but there are also tables for two if you’d prefer a more intimate affair.

Dress Code

Follow in your hosts’ footsteps with subdued hues, flowing fabrics and the odd pop of colour.

Hotel restaurant

It’s tutti a tavola at Parco dei Sesi’s dining pergola, where meals are oh-so-Sicilian in spirit and flavour, and shared around a convivial table. Its farm-to-fork approach is bolstered by the hotel’s kitchen gardens in Pantelleria and Sicily, and once a week you’ll dine together in the caper fields, plus Sunday is wood-fired pizza night. Breakfast is abundant with homemade sweet treats, bread and brioche, local yoghurt and ricotta, as-you-like eggs and fresh fruit. Fill your camera roll with shots of creatively presented tablescapes and yourself with crispy caper-scattered risotto and homemade pastas.

Hotel bar

The alfresco bar pours Pantelleria-grown natural wines that use protected farming techniques to transform passito and zibbibo grapes into fine bottles. Stick to a liquid diet with the house sbagliato, a fizzy favourite, or for something more substantial, there’s Sicilian-style street food of panelle and bruschette.

Last orders

Breakfast is from 8am to 10.30am; lunch is served from noon to 2pm, and dinner is between 5pm and 8pm. The bar is open until 11pm.

Room service

You can order dishes from the restaurant’s menu during kitchen hours for an extra charge.

Location

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Address
Parco dei Sesi
Strada Perimetrale Ovest 95
Pantelleria
91017
Italy

Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Parco dei Sesi perches on the northwest coast of pocket-size Pantelleria, an Italian isle set between Sicily and Tunisia.

Planes

Regional flights from Palermo, Trapani and Cantania land at Pantelleria airport, which is a 15-minute drive from the hotel, but flights aren’t scheduled everyday. Staff can arrange transfers from the airport for €40 each way.

Automobiles

You’ll want a set of wheels to take in the island and its pristine coves, plus there’s free parking at the hotel.

Other

Private jets can touch down at Pantelleria’s airport, or you could hop on a fast ferry from Sicily’s Trapani, which arrives in under three hours.

Worth getting out of bed for

Scenery-blessed bolthole Parco dei Sesi takes its name from the millenia-old archeological park in which it resides, where volcanic stone, Med views and olive groves are your natural neighbours. Your in-the-know hosts can arrange trips to local wineries and farms, intimate dinners for due in their secret garden, or private cooking classes where you’ll perfect Sicilian classics. You could also tour the estate’s caper and olive groves, learning about their small-scale production.

Beach hop around Pantelleria — lesser-known Punta Fram is a short walk away — or take in crystal-clear coves and bubbling hot springs on a boat charter. Back at base, creative juices flow at the art studio, which showcases pieces by Palermo artist Filippo Panseca, or indulge in a rooftop yoga class, Tibetan sound bowl ritual or floral-oil massage.

Local restaurants

Il Principe E Il Pirata is worth the 25-minute drive: bold ceramic plates are topped with fresh seafood and vibrant vegetables, but blue is the colour that prevails with its cerulean-splashed terrace and vast sea views. Ristorante Bar La Vela sits in a locally loved cove and delivers fuss-free cooking and regional flavours — we’re eyeing the spaghetti alle vongole. Tuck into caponata and cocktails at Kayà Kayà, a port-facing bar with a lively fairylit terrace.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this adults-only island hotel in Italy and unpacked their handpainted ceramics and local olive oil, a full account of their creative country break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Parco dei Sesi in Pantelleria…

If you’re seeking inspiration — be it artistic, epicurean or spiritual — you’ll find it at Parco dei Sesi, a rustic-luxe retreat on imagination-sparking Pantelleria. Owners Margot and Massimiliano were born on this bijou isle, where their parents had set up studios in the Seventies. In a nod to their heritage, you’ll find an on-site art gallery showcasing oeuvres by Palermo’s late Filippo Panseca.

Decades later, familiarity and creativity run wild within these volcanic walls. Writers’ block is lifted by sea-framed scenery, conversation flows at come-together dinners in the caper fields or once-a-week pizza parties, and any burnout is remedied with sound healing, reiki and botanical massages.

You might unearth new flavour pairings in a cooking class or tour to a local farm, or design ideas from beautifully presented tablescapes and consciously curated interiors. But inspiration also strikes in the still moments, where you’re simply just being — perhaps with a spritz in hand...

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