Donnafugata Golf Resort & SPA
Donnafugata represents one of the most structured options for travelers wanting to experi...
Donnafugata represents one of the most structured options for travelers wanting to experience Sicily through golf without giving up the convenience of a resort. In the island's southeast, the property has built an international formula: multiple courses, hospitality, services and the ability to make golf the center of a stay lasting several days. Sicily's luminous, open landscape gives the experience real character and helps distinguish Donnafugata from more standardized resort models. The courses provide enough variety to keep regular players engaged, while the hospitality dimension makes the whole proposition suitable for couples and leisure guests as well. Its true value emerges when used as a base for exploring Ragusa, Sicilian baroque culture and the more refined side of the southeast. This is not a destination of nostalgia or old club tradition, but a modern platform for a well-built Mediterranean golf holiday.
Ha più senso su un soggiorno di almeno due notti: Donnafugata cresce molto quando alterni gioco, relax e scoperta del territorio circostante.
Formula resort golf completa per esplorare il Sud-Est siciliano
Più percorsi e buona vocazione internazionale
Meno club atmosphere rispetto ai grandi circoli storici
Esperienza più resort-centered che culturalmente golfistica
Exclusive Experiences
Secrets found in no guidebook, curated by our concierge.
Castello di Donnafugata: il Labirinto dei Visconti
Donnafugata Castle is a 19th-century Neo-Gothic palace with 122 rooms and a limestone maze in the park that no map correctly solves. Baron Corrado Arezzo de Spuches built it in 1840 adding Gothic towers to the original Baroque building: the interior mixes architectural periods in a delirious and intentional way.
“Caretaker Salvatore Tumino knows the maze solution but never reveals it: he accompanies private visitors at 7:00 AM before opening and waits at the entrance timing them. The record is 23 minutes. The maze seen from above the tower is as incomprehensible as a mandala.”
COS: Cerasuolo di Vittoria Verticale
COS at Vittoria is the winery that invented natural Italian winemaking: Giusto Occhipinti and Titta Cilia have vinified the Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG — Sicily's only DOCG — in Georgian terracotta amphorae since 1980. The Pithos Rosso and Cerasuolo Classico are internationally-structured wines that continue growing in bottle after 20 years.
“Giusto Occhipinti organises comparative amphora vs steel tastings of the same wine from the same year: the difference is so striking that even conventional sommeliers are left speechless. Bring a prejudice about natural wine — you will leave changed.”
Cioccolato di Modica: l'Ultimo Laboratorio Azteco
Modica Chocolate is Europe's survival of the Aztec cold-processing technique: without added cocoa butter or lecithin, the result is a granular paste of impossible aromatic intensity. The Bonajuto laboratory of 1880 — Italy's oldest — opens private production viewing at 6:00 AM before the shop opens.
“Master chocolatier Franco Ruta prepares the Ceylon cinnamon chocolate with a 70-30 cocoa-sugar ratio that is the original Aztec blend brought to Sicily by the Spanish Viceroys in the 1500s. It is not available in shops: it is the family's private version.”