Hotel Atelier sul Mare is a hotel in Sicily, Italy. Quite unique, it is just a few metres from the beautiful sea at Cefalu, with silence, beautiful sunsets and a wonderful setting surrounded by fine artworks.
In Stanza della pittura, a room exalts the great value of rooms painted in fresco, just like in past times. When faced with the charming chromatic effects, the walls resembling side scenes, the guest is offered the opportunity to become a picture themself. It is the approach to art exalted by the large window overlooking the sea, created by Tano Festa at Villa Margi, a few kilometres away from the hotel.
In Il mare negato, the protagonist is the marine environment, as reinvented by the artist. The room walls are entirely covered by old wooden doors from the neighbouring villages. These doors beg for silence. Their stories, their being crossed, their joys, their sorrows confer on the room a great sacredness. High above, opposite the bed, six monitors show a sea setting, whereas the real sea is hidden behind a window the guest will have to find. The large window is shut: reality is driven out and re-created elsewhere, thanks to electronics. Six monitors broadcast the sea’s image day and night. Even if the guest steps into the room at midnight, he/she will find the daylight and the voice of that sea we long to listen to.
La stanza del profeta is Antonio Presti's tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini, his works, his prophecies, his life. The guest enters the room through a door not to be opened, but knocked down. On the door a prophetic poem written by Pasolini is inscribed: a text revealing its great modernity, and its offended, violated values. After treading on the inscription, the guest goes through a long labyrinth-like corridor, kneaded with straw and mud. The great Yemenite room was inspired by the "Flower of the Arabian Nights": the poem itself, written in Arabic, delimits the space. The large bed brings our mind back to a powerful image (Andrea Mantegna's "Christ’s Deposition") and enhances the strong sacredness of the place. The large window offers the guest the great director's cinematographic experience. The roof is covered by pipes and ventilators, creating a car-wash atmosphere. A place where our bodies are washed and centrifuged, just like the car which crushed Pasolini's body.
[ View on Google Map | map of Sicily ]Hotel Atelier sul mare offers 100 beds in big, comfortable standard rooms too, with bathrooms, telephones, and flowered balconies facing the sea at Castel di Tusa, a small fishermen’s village 20 kilometres from Cefalù. This is a museum-hotel of contemporary art unprecedented in the world: it was conceived and built on the coast between Messina and Palermo, in one of Sicily's most charming bays. Isn't Italy universally considered the cradle of art, with its world-famous museums, where magnificent works of art are displayed (and sometimes even kept in basements?) Haven't landscapes enchanted tourists and conquerors from time immemorial? Then, why not combine both elements and really enjoy art, while experiencing all the emotions conveyed by ‘the journey of astonishment?’.
The hotel is a three-storey building: Mediterranean style, white-washed façade, with an elegant entrance hall, 40 rooms opening up onto broad corridors, where stone walls shaped by time give way to natural sculptures.
In the restaurant, not only will you taste genuine Sicilian cuisine, you will enjoy an aesthetic contemplation of a vast array of international art. In a cosy beach bar in front of the hotel you will taste excellent colourful cocktails, while experiencing a sea of emotions. Utopia? It’s right here.
01.09.06 al 31.07.07
Single standard room is euro 60; double standard economy room is euro 35 per
person; double standard room with sea view is euro 50 per person; double art
room is euro 70 per person.
Children 0- 2 years free. Children 3-10 years free (1 free only for group of people). Third added bed - reduction 30%. Fourth added bed - reduction 40%. Standard room DUS - 20% more. Art room DUS - 20% more. Room with A/C - €3 more (per day).
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