Fontane Bianche
A design villa that transports its guests to the Mediterranean via Miami, with loud pops of colour and a glorious Seventies vibe
Fontane Bianche is a spacious and colourful, modernist design villa that lies two blocks from the sea in a small town of the same name on Sicily’s glorious south-eastern coast.
Terrazzo floors and cool and characterful ceramics shout Italy, specifically Sicily, yet the exterior tiles, the sunshine yellow kitchen and front door, the palms and the split staircase down to the lawn and pool are pure Miami. None of it would look out of place in a Slim Aarons photograph.
The house’s bright and bold design happily transports guests to different countries and decades. It is a house made for holidays full of family, friends and fun and, as such, it is as spacious and comfortable as it is zingy and zany.
The white-painted bedrooms are large and airy, with beautiful smooth floors, mid-century furniture and pops of individual colour. Large, comfy beds, fabulous views and doors to a terrace give a hotel vibe, while the en-suites have beautiful zellige tiles and some have double basins and one has a bath.
There are spacious living and dining areas inside, while outside there are numerous pockets for guests to hide away with a book or socialise together. Seventies cane furniture leans into the bygone glamour of the place and it’s a house built for sashaying, cocktail in hand, across the crazy paving and down the split stairs to the pool lawn. Even the planting is cinematic, with cactus, palms and bougainvillea framing the view of the sea.
Fontane Bianche is a joyful property. There is, of course, a sandy beach and the Ionian Sea on the doorstep, but if guests want to step even further back in time, Syracusa, Ortigia and Noto are full of ancient history and each is less than 20km away.
