Verdura Golf & Spa Resort

Admirable 203-room property on beautifully landscaped 560-acre seafront site, 60 miles south of Palermo. Stylish, nicely furnished rooms and villas offer views of the Mediterranean; limestone baths provide soaking tubs and separate showers. Three dining venues, including a beach restaurant and a Sicilian trattoria with its own pizzeria. Also two 18-hole golf courses, plus a 9-hole course; six floodlit clay tennis courts; kids’ club and separate facility for teenagers; modest beach; and an attractive 4,000-square-foot spa with three outdoor thalasso-therapy pools, indoor pool, gym, and sauna and steam rooms. Kids club and separate facility for teenagers.