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1. Palio dell’Argentario: Porto Santo Stefano celebrates its regatta

(Experiences & Tips)

... two buoys), making five turns out to sea and four towards the shore. The boats used are traditional and are known as "guzzi" with each named after a wind: Maestrale, Grecale, Libeccio and Scirocco. The ...

Created on 06 July 2026

2. Experiential Hospitality Awards 2025: Italy's best experiential hotels revealed

(Experiences & Tips)

... Rocco Forte Hotel; 2. Altafiumara Resort & Spa; 3. Le Marne Relais, Piedmont; 4 Grand Hotel da Vinci, Emilia-Romagna; 5. Cyprianerhof Dolomit Resort, South Tyrol; 6. Oasyhotel, Tuscany; 7. Grand Hotel ...

Created on 31 October 2025

3. Rocco Forte Hotels’ The Carlton Milano to debut on 6 November 

(Hospitality)

Rocco Forte Hotels' second property in Milan, The Carlton Milano, will open its doors on 6 November and is now available for bookings. Rocco Forte Hotels' second 16th property Following the opening ...

Created on 10 September 2025

4. Hotel de Russie: a €30 million restyling for 25 years with Rocco Forte Hotels

(Hospitality)

A €30 million euro renovation seals the first 25 years of the Hotel de Russie at Rocco Forte Hotels. The hotel is famous for its Secret Garden The work, carried out between 2021 and 2025, involved ...

Created on 24 June 2025

5. The Gruppo Una is up for sale, with US funds interested

(Editorial)

... Capital and Sixth Street, owner since 2022 of Le Palme on the Costa Smeralda which is soon to be branded Rocco Forte. Also taking part in the comings and goings could be the British company Aermont, which ...

Created on 07 March 2025

6. Rocco Forte’s Villa Igiea: a Sicilian winter with film-set locations

(Hospitality)

This year, for the first time since its reopening as a Rocco Forte hotel, Villa Igiea will be open for the entire winter season, and it will be offering guests visits to film-set locations. Itineraries ...

Created on 20 December 2024

7. Rocco Forte to open Palazzo Castelluccio in Noto in 2026

(Hospitality)

Palazzo Castelluccio, to open in Noto in 2026, will be the third property in Sicily for the Rocco Forte Group. The interiors will be by Olga Polizzi When it opens in 2026, the new property will feature ...

Created on 22 October 2024

8. Rocco Forte’s new serviced apartments in Milan’s fashion triangle

(Hospitality)

The Rocco Forte House Milan serviced apartments opened at the end of August.  Eleven serviced apartments The property is located on Via Manzoni, in the so-called fashion triangle, and features eleven ...

Created on 07 October 2024

9. Rocco Forte’s third Sicilian property is Palazzo Castelluccio in Noto

(Hospitality)

Palazzo Castelluccio in Noto is the third Sicilian property for the Rocco Forte Group.    Palazzo Castelluccio is in a UNESCO site  Palazzo Castelluccio in  the town of Noto (Sicily), which is a UNESCO ...

Created on 07 May 2024

10. Discovering Sicilian Matriarchal History with Rocco Forte

(Hospitality)

Explore Sicily through the unconventional perspective of the island’s matriarchs, old and new, exclusively available at Rocco Forte’s Villa Igiea and Verdura Resort. Stories of powerful 1900s Sicilian ...

Created on 18 April 2024

11. Rocco Forte is to open the all-suite Palazzo di Sirignano in Naples

(Hospitality)

As the fatal attraction between the fashion world and the hotel industry continues, Rocco Forte is to open the all-suite Palazzo di Sirignano in Naples. The property belongs to the Colella family The ...

Created on 19 March 2024

12. New private villas in the pipeline at the Verdura Resort in Sciacca (Sicily)

(Hospitality)

... within the Rocco Forte Group's Sicilian estate, these are the company's first branded residences available for purchase and are the result of a collaboration between the architects Asa Studio Albanese ...

Created on 26 February 2024

13. Rocco Forte ready to double in Puglia with a new 5-star masseria

(Hospitality)

According to recent reports in the Italian daily La Repubblica, the Rocco Forte group is in advanced negotiations with the owner of the Relais del Cardinale in Fasano.  Will Rocco Forte manage or take ...

Created on 21 July 2023

14. Rocco Forte Hotels revamps its management team in Italy 

(Hospitality)

The revanped management of the Rocco Forte Hotels group in Italy aims at enhancing synergies and seizing market opportunities. Francesco Roccato new cluster general manager Milan and Florence Francesco ...

Created on 12 June 2023

15. Great golf getaways in Italy and Rome’s 2023 Ryder Cup course

(Experiences & Tips)

... metres with a par 72. Rocco Forte’s Verdura Resort Italy’s Best Golf Resort is in Sicily says Golf World Rocco Forte’s Verdura Resort in Sicily was voted the Best Golf Resort in Italy by Golf World. ...

Created on 02 June 2023

16. Rocco Forte expands with the former Le Palme Hotel in Porto Cervo

(Hospitality)

Rocco Forte is expanding in Sardinia, managing the former Le Palme Hotel in Porto Cervo. After redevelopment the resort will open in 2024 Thanks to an agreement with Sixth Street, Rocco Forte will ...

Created on 18 April 2023

17. Saudi Arabia’s Pif fund looks ready to acquire 49% of Rocco Forte

(Hospitality)

The Pif Saudi sovereign wealth fund looks to be ready to acquire 49% of Rocco Forte. Pif is expected to take over 23% from CDP and a further 26% from the shareholding family According to the Il Sole ...

Created on 13 March 2023

18. Rocco Forte seeks 49% partners. Could Lvmh be interested?

(Business)

The mandate to find new financial partners for the Rocco Forte group has been assigned to Rotschild.  Potential Gulf investors or Lvmh? The prize being  49% of the company, which is also linked to ...

Created on 16 December 2022

19. Enough about tourism! There are many, many tourisms 

(Editorial)

... talk about tourism, when instead we should be saying tourisms," said Rocco Forte Hotels’ group director operations Antonello De Medici. "Anyone investing in luxury as we do has to consider a destination’s ...

Created on 25 November 2022

20. Bespoke en-suite dining and music at the Rocco Forte Hotels  

(Hospitality)

As part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, Rocco Forte Hotels launches the Musical Suite Service, an immersive en-suite dining with music experience, combining food and music in the privacy of your ...

Created on 02 November 2022

21. The Sky’s the Limit. Boost Your Skillset Whilst on Holiday

(Leisure)

... Room on B&B basis. A 90-minute individual tennis lesson with a star player starts from €85.  Information: roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/verdura-resort  Kids learn to play football at Forte ...

Created on 27 July 2022

22. Sicilian Railway Experience. A new Rocco Forte rail project

(Experiences & Tips)

Sicilian Railway Experience is a new Rocco Forte rail product: a 1920s train from central Palermo to Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, running from Villa Igiea to the Verdura Resort on the historic rolling ...

Created on 09 May 2022

23. Palermo’s Villa Igiea reopening with new rooms and suites in the Donna Franca building 

(Hospitality)

The second season with Rocco Forte at the helm of Villa Igiea in Palermo starts on 17 March. Following the inauguration last June the famous Sicilian residence is ready to open again, as are the new rooms ...

Created on 19 April 2022

24. Baglioni Hotels returns to Milan with Casa Baglioni in the elegant downtown Brera district

(Hospitality)

... 2020 from the management of the Carlton Hotel, now run by Rocco Forte. As announced a few months ago the Milanese hotel operator announced the opening of Casa Baglioni in the fourth quarter of this year. ...

Created on 10 March 2022

25. Davide Bertilaccio takes over as the new Ceo of the Italian Villa d'Este Hotels Group on 1 April

(Business)

... general manager of the Savoy in Florence (Rocco Forte) and moving to Geneva for the opening of Le Richemond, another property of the Italian-UK group. In 2008 he was responsible for the opening of the ...

Created on 21 February 2022

26. Apulia to boost its appeal for the luxury market with a new 5-star Meliá in Polignano a Mare

(Hospitality)

... offer in the region. In fact international brands such as Belmond, Four Seasons and Rocco Forte have been investing for quite some time in Apulia. The new Meliá will join the San Domenico - Borgo Egnazia ...

Created on 14 January 2022

27. Rocco Forte’s serviced apartments in Milan  

(Hospitality)

Following on their Rome opening Rocco Forte, in partnership with Generali Real Estate Milan, is to open the group’s second serviced apartment building in Milan. The renovated building - on a project by ...

Created on 23 September 2021