Grand Hotel et des Palmes Superior

Since as far back as 1874, the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes has offered the most demanding of guests the best of hospitality in the true Palermo tradition. Gold and marble, mirrors and velvet together create in the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes a unique setting for the most important events. For many years it was the obligatory meeting point for the greatest names of Sicilian society, the arts, culture and international finance. A favourite place of Richard Wagner, who found here the inspiration to complete his Parsifal, the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes welcomes its own guests into all the charm and fascination of a great epoch.RESTAURANT AND BAR The La Palmetta restaurant, opened towards the end of the 1800s when a salon in the Ingham-Whitakers’ old Patrician residence was refurbished, offers the opportunity to savour creative Mediterranean cuisine. It can seat up to 100 guests. The Bar of the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, furnished in Bordeaux velvet, is redolent with all the nineteenth-century charm of the famous novel Il Gattopardo (The Leopard). It is the perfect place to enjoy cocktails and drinks in a warm, refined atmosphere.