Quintocanto Hotel & Spa (Palermo, Italy)

Created out of the 17th-century Palazzo Viola, the stylish Quintocanto Hotel & Spa is located in the heart of ancient Palermo. Decorated in an elegant minimalist style, this design hotel flows out of a historic interior courtyard with an immense palm tree. The 20 en-suite bedrooms and five apartments overlook either the courtyard or the Church of San Giuseppe dei Teatini. Each is air-conditioned and features chromotherapy showers, minibars, and safes. Quintocanto Hotel & Spa also incorporates a spa with sauna, whirlpool and steam room. Guests can also relax in the Clubhouse, an atmospheric room which can also be hired as a meeting space. A buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner are served at the Locanda del Gusto – one of the leading gastronomic restaurants in Sicily – specialising in traditional Sicilian cuisine. The accommodation is situated just a minute’s walk from the Quattro Canti Square and about 200 metres from Santa Maria Dell’Ammiraglio with its Byzantine mosaics. The Palazzo dei Normanni is about a kilometre away.