Icona’s Costa Ragusa Resort opened on 1 August 2026 on Sicily’s south-eastern coast — 105 rooms and suites among centuries-old olive groves, eight restaurants and bars, a Longevity Suite spa with cryotherapy, and rates from €404 with breakfast. It’s the flagship of a €200 million bet on the island’s least-developed luxury coast.
Everyone goes to Taormina. The Val di Noto — Sicily’s south-eastern corner, where the UNESCO-listed baroque towns of Ragusa Ibla, Modica, Noto and Scicli stack honey-coloured stone above an almost empty coastline — has food, wine and architecture to rival anywhere in Italy, and almost nowhere serious to sleep by the sea. That’s the gap Mangia’s Hotels & Resorts is spending €200 million to close. On 1 August 2026, Icona’s Costa Ragusa Resort opened between the Kamarina Archaeological Park and the fishing town of Scoglitti as the flagship of the new Costa Ragusa destination — and the debut resort of Icona’s, the group’s new luxury brand, launched alongside Palermo’s storied Grand Hotel et Des Palmes.
Icona’s Costa Ragusa Resort: Key Facts
- Opened: 1 August 2026 — inaugural resort of the Icona’s Collection, Mangia’s new luxury brand
- Location: Sicily’s south-eastern coast between the Kamarina Archaeological Park, Scoglitti and Marina di Ragusa — the Val di Noto’s baroque towns inland; fly to Comiso (nearest) or Catania
- Keys: 105 rooms and suites set among centuries-old olive groves, with floor-to-ceiling windows, local materials and private terraces facing the sea horizon
- Dining: eight restaurants, bars and lounges — haute Sicilian at IBLÆ, cliffside Med-Nikkei at AMA, the Oceanis beach club on the private beach, and sunset drinks at Meridies
- Wellness: a spa by The Longevity Suite, Italy’s leading longevity and biohacking specialist — four treatment cabins, indoor and outdoor pools, sauna, steam bath and a cryotherapy cabin
- Sport: tennis, padel, running paths through the landscape and a fitness centre — with athlete retreats and training programmes pitched at the shoulder seasons
- Also: an infinity pool merging into the Mediterranean horizon, and full-property buyouts for private celebrations
- The bigger picture: Costa Ragusa is a roughly €200 million development by Mangia’s — about €160 million already invested — with the Donnafugata Golf Resort (200-plus rooms and villas, two 18-hole championship courses on almost 500 hectares) joining in 2027
- Rates: from €404 per night for a double, breakfast included
Quiet Luxury, Loud Investment
The interesting tension at Costa Ragusa is right there in the numbers: €200 million is destination-building money, but Icona’s — the piece aimed at readers of this site — is deliberately the quiet part, 105 keys of olive groves and sea horizon while the 433-room all-inclusive Borgo next door absorbs the volume. That split is the strategy. Chairman Marcello Mangia is repositioning an entire coast, and the Icona’s brand — paired at launch with Palermo’s Grand Hotel et Des Palmes, one of Sicily’s genuinely historic addresses — is the group’s claim to the top of the market it’s creating. The 2027 arrival of Donnafugata’s two championship golf courses, among the only such layouts in Sicily, tells you the year-round ambition; the full-buyout option tells you who they expect to call.
The Longevity Current Reaches Sicily
The spa partner is a tell. The Longevity Suite is Italy’s leading longevity and biohacking operator, and its arrival here — cryotherapy cabin included — makes Costa Ragusa the third opening this season to build its wellness offer around longevity science rather than massage menus, after Six Senses’ 60,000 sq ft club in Dubai and White Elephant’s Base State partnership in Aspen. When the trend surfaces in the Sicilian countryside, it’s no longer a trend — it’s the new baseline for luxury resort wellness.
The Coast Itself
What surrounds the resort is the real sell. The Greek ruins of Kamarina sit next door; Scoglitti remains a working fishing town whose catch defines the region’s tables; Punta Secca — television’s Inspector Montalbano country — is along the shore; and the baroque hill towns are day-trip close: Ragusa Ibla’s stacked domes, Modica’s chocolate, Noto’s golden cathedral run. This is the Sicily that Italians keep for themselves in September. For more of this site’s Italy openings coverage, see La Réserve’s palazzo debut in Florence, and if the island’s vineyards are part of the plan, my guide to luxury wine tours in Italy covers the Sicilian estates worth the drive inland.
Tip: book September or early October. The sea holds its warmth, the baroque towns empty of summer crowds, the shoulder-season rates undercut August sharply — and it’s exactly the window the resort itself is pitching at training retreats, which tells you when the property is at its calmest.
How Much Does Icona’s Costa Ragusa Resort Cost?
The €404 lead-in is the floor, not what the good weeks cost. For a late-September midweek night — Wednesday 23 to Thursday 24 September 2026, two adults, breakfast and taxes included — the entry 31 sq m Premium room reads €626 non-refundable or €696 flexible on Booking.com, against €638 fully refundable on Expedia. The 40 sq m Sea View Terrace Suite is €899 non-refundable or €998 flexible on Booking.com and €915 refundable on Expedia; the 55 sq m Deluxe Suite with Sea View Terrace runs €1,271 to €1,412 on Booking.com and €1,294 on Expedia. Trip.com carries the resort as a map landmark only — there is nothing bookable there.
Rates for the same room on the same night routinely swing 10–20% between platforms, and here the gap runs both ways: prepay and Booking.com is a few euros cheaper, keep the right to cancel and Expedia undercuts it by €58 on the entry room and €83 on the sea-view suite. Five minutes of cross-checking can save you a few hundred euros on a suite — more across a week.
- Check rates on Booking.com — the fullest room list, and the only platform showing non-refundable and flexible prices side by side.
- Check rates on Expedia — every rate here is fully refundable, which suits a shoulder-season booking you may want to move.
How to Book
Rates start from €404 per night for a double with breakfast; book via mangias.com or the resort site at costaragusaresort.mangias.com. For the baroque towns and arrival: Val di Noto baroque towns tour · Catania airport transfer.
Disclosure: this article contains affiliate links. If you book through them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Read my full disclosure policy.
This preview is based on official announcements — I haven’t stayed yet. Read more about how I review or visit my Work With Me page.
