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Savoy Hotel & Spa
Paestum, Italy · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Pagano family put the Savoy behind the pine belt at Paestum, a couple of kilometres from the Greek temples, and then did something no one expects of a Cilento beach hotel. In November 2021 the Michelin guide gave its restaurant, Tre Olivi, two stars in one go, nine months after Giovanni Solofra walked into the kitchen. Oliver Glowig cooks there now, at one star, with much of the produce arriving from the family's own farm. Behind the restaurant the Holos spa runs through vaulted rooms in purple Calacatta marble and dark lava stone.
About Savoy Hotel & Spa
- Holos, the 700-square-metre spa opened here in March 2022, holds three temperature-controlled pools, a salt cave, an ice room and a hammam with a rasul chamber, plus a private spa built for two.
- Much of what Tre Olivi serves comes from San Salvatore 1988, the family's own farm and winery in the Cilento hills, from the buffalo dairy to the olive oil.
- The Greek city of Poseidonia, founded around 600 BC and later renamed Paestum by the Romans, keeps three of the best-preserved Doric temples anywhere, a couple of kilometres up the road.
History
The Savoy is the second hotel built by the Pagano family of Paestum, who came to tourism from other trades and wanted a house that could carry big events, weddings above all, in a place where Hera had been the protector of marriage for two and a half thousand years. Salvatore Pagano took over the group's hotels in 2011 and rebuilt the property's spaces to designs by the architect Giampiero Panepinto.
In 2020 he brought in Giovanni Solofra and Roberta Merolli, who had spent years with Heinz Beck and won a Michelin star at the St George in Taormina, and gave them the gourmet kitchen alone, separate from the banqueting brigade. Nine months later, in November 2021, the Michelin guide awarded Tre Olivi two stars at once, a leap the guide almost never makes. Solofra left in 2024 and Oliver Glowig took the kitchen; the restaurant carries one star in the 2026 Italian guide.
The Holos spa opened on 19 March 2022 in 700 square metres designed by Panepinto in purple Calacatta marble and dark lava stone, and reopened after a refit for the 2025 season. The hotel is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts, and the group also runs Beach Club 93 on the sand and the San Salvatore 1988 farm and winery inland.
The setting
The hotel stands on Via Poseidonia behind the pine wood that runs along the Paestum shore, with the beach club a shuttle ride away on the sand. Two or three kilometres inland lie the walls of Poseidonia, the Greek colony founded around 600 BC, where the temples of Hera and Athena still stand nearly whole and the painted Tomb of the Diver sits in the archaeological museum. The Cilento National Park, the buffalo mozzarella farms and the Amalfi Coast are all within reach; Salerno is about twenty-two kilometres north.
Restaurants and bars
- Ristorante Tre Olivi — Restaurant
Experiences
- La Veranda show cooking — La Veranda has nine food stations for show cooking.
- Terrace bar with park views — The Terrace overlooks the park and has a walk-around bar; hotel palms reflect in the large lava stone pool.
Amenities
- Private beach with fine sand
- Large park garden
- Beach Club 93
- Dedicated wedding planner
- Custom décor and set-up
- Winter Christmas-themed weddings
- International destination weddings
- Organic produce from San Salvatore 1988 family farm
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