Address: Via Roma, n°398 - 90139 Palermo, Sicily - Italy

Description:
The Grand hotel of Palmes emerged in 1874 from the antique household of Patrizia of the Ingham Whitaker family, built previously in 1856 and connected with a segret passage that led to an anglican church, that today you can find in front of the Hotel. The Patrizia house had two floor levels, a winter garden (the present hall) and an exotic garden that extends to the sea. The union between the widow Ingham and Giacomo Medici changed the destiny of the ‘house', that given to a local workman trasformed it into the Grand Hotel et des Palmes, known by all those living at Palermo as ‘Le Palmes'. Ernesto Basile, one of the major teachers of the liberty style in 1907 transformed the Hotel. A wooden ceiling was created in the hall, inlaid in the present Caminetto room; simular to the present ceiling in one of the rooms of the Palazzo Montecitorio. The history of Sicily is transparent at the Grand Hotel : Here Richard Wagner in 1885 finished his ‘Parsifal'; in 1882 Francesco Crispi taught lessons of politics; Vittorio Emanuele Orlando would often stopover at the Hotel; the french writer Raymond Roussel abided at Grand Hotel et des Palmes, till his death; the General Charles Poletti made it his general head quarters, during the second world war and finally, the Baron Di Stefano ‘the secluded of the Hotel', condemmed to a mafia sentence; death carried out immediately or exile…. chose the seclution at the ‘Palmes' , where he stayed for 50 years, till his death. Today the history, the characters that have approached the Hotel, the beauty of the rooms, not only makes it one of the most famous hotels of the world , but it assigns it as a "Hotel with a Soul".

Facilities:
The 172 rooms and 8 suites offer the possibility to stay in a prestigeous environment, an unique atmosphere, The hotel in these last three years has seen to revive the common spaces, the restaurants, the hall and a good part of the rooms through one taken care of restructure still in work course that will bring back the hotel to the old makes you of a time. Inside the Storical wing of the Grand Hotel et des Palmes, fully refreshed, you find a combination ideal between traditional elegance and modern tecnology. Room services: Every room is equipped with climate system. Minibar, telephone with direct external line, television with remote control, satellite TV, Sky TV, a safe in the upper rooms.