La Dimora - Catania area

As you pass through the lava-stone ashlar portal a Latin motto illustrates the ancient inspiration of the main house, as valid today as three centuries ago.
Painstakingly renovated with passionate care, as well as a keen sense of the needs of today's travellers,  La Dimora offers guests a vacation where the emphasis is on comfort, space and the quality of rest and relaxation. And a twin vocation: a delightful place to stay, in the seductive microcosm of theresidence , and an ideal base for exploration, strategically located at the foot of the volcano, close to Catania, the coast and the sea.

 

Built in the early 1700's in the heart of the southern slopes of Etna, La Dimora is a harmonious complex of houses.. The square-plan manor house enclosing an elegant inner court .

Protected as a historic property by the Office of Monuments and Fine Arts, La Dimora is an oasis of peace and tranquillity in an ancient urban setting: self-contained, but not remote. The guest apartments are gathered around a square courtyard like houses on a tiny piazza. The lava-stone windows with low relief decorations look onto orchards, gardens and onto Via Teatro. This narrow street takes its name from the old warehouse opposite the entry to La Dimora which was occasionally used as a puppet theatre. Refurbished and transformed into an attractive leisure space for the use of guests, the old Theatre looks onto a garden of fruit trees, a colonnade and a pergola covered in age-old vines surrounding the swimming pool.