Palazzo Avino

Top choice in Ravello


One of three luxury piles on Ravello’s 'millionaires' row', the erstwhile Palazzo Sasso has been a hotel on and off since 1880, sheltering many 20th-century luminaries – General Eisenhower planned the Allied attack on Monte Cassino here. Present-day guests prefer to recline more peacefully in their rooms amid hand-painted furniture, ornamented chaise lounges, fresh flowers and an original painting or two.

The hotel inhabits a handsome, pale-pink 12th-century palace emboldened with fanciful Moorish touches.

The 20m-long swimming pool commands great views, and the on-site Michelin-starred restaurant, Rossellini's, has a superb reputation. Service is refreshingly unpretentious.


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