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Ortea Palace Hotel Sicily Autograph Collection, a Luxury Collection Hotel
Syracuse, Italy · Autograph Collection · Core Luxury
Syracuse's former Palazzo delle Poste on Ortigia overlooks Porto Piccolo, where King Victor Emmanuel III attended the 1920 first-stone laying and the post office opened in 1929 after nine years of construction. The Russotti family spent roughly as long restoring the white-limestone palace before its 2023 debut as Autograph Collection's first Sicilian hotel, with 75 rooms named for typefaces from Bauhaus to Garamond.
- 75 rooms
- Opened 2023
- Neighborhood: Ortigia
- Architect: Francesco Fichera
About Ortea Palace Hotel Sicily Autograph Collection, a Luxury Collection Hotel
- Catania architect Francesco Fichera designed the white-limestone palace that later held Ortigia's first telegraph.
- The former courtyard car park is now a glass-roofed lobby with a bar and brasserie.
- Russotti Gestioni, a major Italian Marriott franchisee, operates the 75-room house.
History
The Ortea Palace Hotel occupies the monumental former Palazzo delle Poste -- the historic main post office of Syracuse -- on the island of Ortigia, overlooking the Porto Piccolo. Designed by the Catania architect Francesco Fichera and built in white limestone with classical decoration, the building's first stone was laid in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel III; construction spanned some nine years, with the palace inaugurated in 1929 (its structure dating from 1920). It served as the city's post office, home to Ortigia's first telegraph, before standing empty for decades.
Acquired by the Russotti family, the palace underwent a lengthy restoration -- taking roughly as many years as its original construction -- that preserved its historic decorations and colours while converting it into a five-star hotel that opened in 2023. Operated by Russotti Gestioni (a major Italian Marriott franchisee), the 75-room hotel joined Marriott's Autograph Collection as the brand's first property in Sicily; its rooms are named after typefaces (Bauhaus, Bodoni, Futura, Baskerville, Garamond) in tribute to the building's postal past, and its former courtyard car park was transformed into a glass-roofed lobby with bar and brasserie.
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