Commissioned by the renowned Florio family at the end of the 1800s, at the height of the Belle Époque period, this building, with its characteristic form of a castle, takes its name from Igiea, the Greek nymph of health. Created as an exclusive health resort in a location renowned for its health benefits, it was soon transformed into an elegant hotel, preferred by cosmopolitan high society due to its sumptuos environment and refined hospitality together with the mild Sicilian climate. The Liberty style rooms, with decorations, terraces and balustrades overlooking the sea and the garden with century old trees, have hosted the most important European royal and bourgeois families.