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A 200-year family farm in the Madonie hills, turned boutique hotel — rooms in former stalls, a granary restaurant, and almost everything on the plate grown on the estate.
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Need To Know
- 18 rooms and suites, each set in a former part of the working farm — old stalls, the cheesemaker's and baker's quarters — opening onto the gardens, from a 21 m² Classic Double to a 70 m² Deluxe Suite with sauna
- Seasonal: closed roughly mid-November to mid-March
- Adults and couples best suited; the draw is silence, not facilities for children
- Il Granaio restaurant in the old granary — à la carte and a daily tasting menu, home-grown and seasonal; the palmento wine bar with a fireside cinema screen
- A cooking school runs weekly workshops — Sicilian pastry, fresh pasta, bread and oil tasting, arancine and panelle
- Outdoor pool over the hills; massages; garden tours, wine tastings and seasonal harvests
- A genuine eco-estate: solar power, well water, plastic-free, short supply chain
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The self-sufficiency — the estate grows the wheat for the bread, presses its own olive oil, and sends the garden's produce straight to the kitchen, the way it has for two centuries.
- The granary restaurant — Il Granaio, set in the old grain store under high vaulted ceilings and stone walls, a daily tasting menu built from whatever the garden ripened that morning.
- The rooms with a past — each carved from a working part of the old farm, the former stalls and craftsmen's quarters, opening straight onto the gardens with the silence of open country.
- The wine bar in the palmento — the room where the estate once made its wine, now pouring Sicilian bottles and Passito by the fire, ancestor photographs watching from the walls.
- The setting — 600 hectares of wheat, olives and cherry trees in the Madonie, the only sounds the wind and the birds, the pool looking out over the hills.
Key Features
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€346.80 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Masseria Susafa, Contrada Susafa – Polizzi Generosa, 90028 Palermo
Travel Info
Palermo airport is about 90 minutes by car, Catania a similar drive, with a hire car all but essential out here. Polizzi Generosa town is twenty minutes, Cefalù and the coast around an hour, and the Valley of the Temples roughly two.
Nearby Places
The closest airport is Palermo, 110 km away, where it is possible to rent a car. Catania airport is 130 km away.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
The name tells you the philosophy. Su-sa-fa is said to come from a phrase meaning "they know how to do it" — the description once given to a settlement here so self-sufficient it needed nothing from the outside world, growing, milling, pressing and baking everything it required. Eight centuries later the principle still runs the place.
The estate has belonged to the Saeli-Rizzuto family for five generations and more than two hundred years — 600 hectares of wheat, olive groves and cherry trees in the Madonie hills of central Sicily, worked as a farm long before it welcomed a guest. The eighteenth-century masseria at its heart is a serious piece of agricultural architecture, its granary, stalls, cheese rooms and winemaking palmento built for production rather than show. In 2018 the family, with Manfredi Rizzuto hands-on at the head of it, converted the complex into a boutique hotel — carefully, keeping the working bones intact, so that almost every room is a former part of the farm given a second life.
The conversion changed the use without changing the logic. The kitchen still cooks what the estate grows; the bread is still baked from the estate's own wheat and dressed with the estate's own oil; solar panels supply the power and on-site wells the water. An old Sicilian proverb the family likes — casa quantu stai e tirrinu quantu viri, a home for as long as you need it and land as far as you can see — sits over the whole enterprise. Susafa is less a hotel that happens to have a farm than a farm that learned, two centuries in, how to keep guests.
Top Secret
Susafa's daily tasting menu is written fresh each morning around whatever the garden gave up at dawn — so no two dinners in a stay are quite the same, and the chef will walk you through the rows beforehand if you ask. Time a visit to the cherry harvest and you can pick the fruit that turns up at that evening's table.
The Review
Getting to Susafa is part of it: ninety minutes inland from Palermo on meandering roads, through hills that roll out empty to the horizon, until the stone masseria appears in its own sea of wheat. The reward for the drive is silence — the kind central Sicily still keeps — and a working farm that has quietly become one of the island's most characterful places to stay.
The estate runs on what it produces. Meals happen in Il Granaio, the former granary, an enormous vaulted room of stone and arches where breakfast, lunch and dinner are built almost entirely from the gardens, the olive groves and the wheatfields outside; the daily tasting menu follows whatever ripened that morning. A wine bar fills the old palmento, the room where the estate once pressed its wine, with Sicilian bottles, a fire for cool evenings and a wall of photographs of the family's ancestors at work on the land. Between meals there are garden walks, cookery lessons, wine tastings, the seasonal harvests, a pool over the hills, and massages — but the real activity is doing very little.
The eighteen rooms keep faith with the buildings they occupy. Each was something once — a stall, a craftsman's quarters — and the conversion left the rural bones in place, pairing stone, wood and beams with minimalist contemporary comfort; solid doors give blackout dark and complete quiet, and most rooms open straight onto the gardens. It suits couples above all — people who count beautiful landscape, exceptional food and deep quiet as luxury, and who understand that the distance from everything is the point rather than the price.
