2025 editionNo. 26
San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel
Taormina, Italy
Why San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel is one of Europe’s Best 100 Hotels 2025.
San Domenico Palace uses its former monastery and cliffside gardens to frame one of Sicily’s great views. Four Seasons has brought operational confidence to the historic setting, but the hotel’s authority still comes from Taormina itself—the sea, Etna, cloisters and golden evening light.
The essentials.
- Destination
- Taormina, Italy
- Property
- Clifftop former monastery hotel
- Operator
- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
- Opened
- 1896
AddressPiazza San Domenico, 5, 98039, Taormina, ItalyOpen map ↗
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Edition factsThe record at a glance
- Position
- No. 26
- Hotel type
- Clifftop former monastery hotel
- Destination
- Taormina
- Country or region
- Italy
- Management in 2025
- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
- Opening year
- 1896