The Hotel’s facilities

The hotel is the result of an historical transformation and enlargement process that took place during the centuries by the Ravesi family. From the primitive original dwelling in the old location in 1870, after the war Peppino Ravesi built a number of houses for domestic and farmhouses use. The farmhouses were turned into small mills for making agricultural and fish products.

The hotel, which is now completely immersed in the greenery of its gardens, has been restored while maintaining the location’s original architecture, which makes it a unique type of dwelling. The original colour schemes have been maintained, as well as its fundamental construction characteristics, such as the roofed terraces (called u bagghju) with wooden beams supported by wide columns (called puledra) and a stone bench (called u bisuolu) covered in old eighteenth century Napoleonic and Sicilian tiles. The rooms still have their old attics, based on the chestnut wood beams, as well as the walls made entirely out of lava stone.

The roof of the Hotel Ravesi are the same as they were when they were built, terraced (called u lastricu) to aid the collection of rain water; they are connected to water tanks by a system of terracotta eaves (called catusieri) which are still there today. On some of the terraces you can still note a collection basin or an old washouses for washing clothes (in piles) next to the water tanks. The inlet of the water tanks was carved out of a single slab of rock, which has a small casing as a cover.

The large gently sloping garden is cultivated in such a way as to respect the agricultural characteristics of the island; it has a varied range of fruit trees (lemons, pears, apples, figs, vines, capers, India figs etc) and vegetables.

The hotel’s bar and a small library are inside an old building belonging to the Travaglia family. In fact, the bar is the result of an authentic restoration of an old farm lodge, while in the adjoining library there is a perfectly preserved old Aeolian kitchen, in which you can admire the cufulara, the wood-fired, as well as the eighteenth century majolica.
which was used for making wine and malvasia, adjacent to a raised kitchen with its characteristic cufulara and a wood-fired oven, which is now small but well equipped library, in which you will be able to appreciate reading while enjoying a good breakfast or a cool aperitif.
The hotel, which borders onto the Immacolata church, is directly connected to the square of the same name via its private garden; here you will find shops, offices, a bank, bars and restaurant, and it is only a few hundred metres for the small port and the beach of Punta Scario.