Agriturismo Stays in Pantelleria

Last updated: July 2026

Agriturismo in Pantelleria, the volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia, means sleeping inside a working farm or wine estate — almost always in a dammuso, the thick-walled lava-stone house that keeps rooms cool without air conditioning. It is the island’s most characteristic way to stay: you wake up among vines and caper terraces, eat what the property grows, and deal directly with the people who own the land. Below are eight estates, each checked against the owners’ own official channels: what they offer, who they suit, and how to book. Few publish nightly rates, so treat every figure as a guide and confirm directly with the property.

One practical note before choosing: these are small properties in open countryside, and the estates themselves are unanimous that you’ll want your own wheels — a car, scooter or e-bike — since shops, restaurants and swimming spots are rarely walkable. Several arrange rentals for guests. For peak season, book months ahead: minimum stays stretch to a week with fixed arrival days in July and August, while June, September and October are easier, quieter and still warm enough to swim.

• Tenuta Borgia – Self-Catering Dammusi Estate
• Parco dei Sesi Luxury Retreat
• Coste Ghirlanda Wine Estate Dammusi
• Agriturismo Zibibbodoro
• Agriturismo Zinedi
• Le Ballute Agriresort
• Il Baglio Pantelleria
• Zubebi Resort

Tenuta Borgia – Self-Catering Dammusi Estate

Seven historic dammusi on the wild south-west coast, run on one clear idea: privacy. Tenuta Borgia is not a hotel and doesn’t pretend to be one. There is no reception, no breakfast room, no areas shared with other guests — every dammuso is rented on a self-catering basis so that you live the estate entirely at your own pace. The setting is the high, rocky sunset-facing coast at Salto la Vecchia, where the countryside dammusi are the authentic old ones; as the owners themselves note, most buildings right on the island’s shoreline are modern holiday constructions, while the real thing stands slightly inland.

Where you’ll find it. Postal address Contrada Salto la Vecchia, 91017 Pantelleria (TP), on the island’s south-west corner. Don’t look for it on Google Maps: the owners deliberately keep the estate unlisted to protect guests’ privacy, and send driving directions a few days before arrival. For the same reason, visits to the estate are not allowed during the operating season. The sea below is a very open view rather than a doorstep amenity — the nearest access is about 2.5 km downhill on foot at Cala Nikà, with a tiring walk back up — so plan on driving to your daily swim. The estate partners with a car-rental company and sends an offer with your booking confirmation, voucher included, no extra deposit; in August, they warn, finding a car without pre-booking is genuinely difficult.

Choose your dammuso.

• Grande (8 guests) – the flagship, and the only dammuso whose guests have the estate’s big swimming pool to themselves.
• Limoni (4–6 guests) and Palmeto (4 guests) – the larger family houses, each with a private plunge pool.
• Pineta, Vigna, Gelso and Jolly (2 guests each) – couples’ dammusi without pools. The owners argue, fairly, that between the sea, the crater lake and the thermal spots you will hardly miss one — and that a two-person dammuso with private pool basically doesn’t exist on the island outside resorts.
• Tenuta Borgia Exclusive – the entire hamlet for up to 24 guests, for groups who want the whole estate to themselves.

What to expect day to day. Every dammuso has a fully equipped kitchen or kitchenette; grocery stores and a small selection of restaurants are a few kilometres away, and on request the estate arranges grocery delivery or even a home cook. Rates include a mid-week towel change and a full linen change every seven days, with extra cleaning and laundry available as paid services. There is deliberately no air conditioning: the conservative restoration kept the metre-thick stone walls that insulate naturally, paddle fans hang over every bed, and on a wind-blown island the system works better than you’d guess. Wi-Fi exists but is modest, and the owners say so plainly — don’t plan video-heavy remote work. Pets are welcome (small and medium). Families should know that bedrooms are never contiguous, all rooms open directly onto the garden, and the pools have no barriers or alarms: fine with older children, demanding with toddlers.

Booking, honestly explained. Minimum stay is 3 nights; in high and peak season the estate prefers one-week stays arriving Saturday or Sunday. Returning guests get priority on peak weeks: new customers asking for high season are wait-listed until mid-October of the previous year, after which open dates are confirmed in order. Confirmation takes a 30% deposit, with the balance due 60 days before arrival (bank transfer or PayPal). Cancellation is free up to 40 days before arrival, 50% between 40 and 21 days, 100% after that. A security deposit — €300, or €500 for the Grande — is paid on arrival and returned at check-out after a damage check. Check-in from 16:00, check-out by 10:30. The estate also produces its own extra-virgin olive oil and passito, a natural first step into the island’s Zibibbo wines.

Contacts & booking. Official site tenutaborgia.it ↗ • Phone / WhatsApp +39 331 416 0245 • Email [email protected]. No published rate table — request a quote for your dates and party size.

Parco dei Sesi Luxury Retreat

A family-run “contemporary agriturismo” on the island’s north-west coast — adults only, sunset-facing, and very sure of what it is. The Panseca family farms four hectares of olive groves and caper fields around a historic grande dammuso and twelve bedrooms arranged within traditional Pantelleria volumes, all facing the Mediterranean and the African horizon. The name comes from the sesi, the island’s Bronze-Age funerary towers, whose archaeological zone lies on this very stretch of coast. The capers grown here belong to the tradition protected as Capperi di Pantelleria IGP, and they end up on your breakfast table.

Where you’ll find it. Strada Perimetrale Ovest 95, 91017 Pantelleria (TP), on the perimeter road along the island’s west side. The family is refreshingly blunt about logistics: rent a car, scooter or e-bike, because the island is too big to walk, the nearest town and restaurants are not reachable on foot, and you shouldn’t count on taxis. Email them and they’ll help arrange a vehicle — or, if you’re the pedalling kind, study the island cycling circuit before committing to two wheels.

What’s included, what’s promised. Rates cover a homemade farm breakfast, daily room cleaning, bed linen changed every 3–4 days and bath linen every 2 days, pool towels and 10% VAT. The family’s own list of guarantees is worth quoting in substance: tranquillity, privacy, sea view, pool, walking distance to the sea, sunsets from the property, massages on request, a quiet and delicious restaurant on site — and cats on the property, stated with the same seriousness as everything else. The reverse list is just as clear, and worth knowing before you book: no kids admitted, no pets, no single-use plastic, no TV in the rooms, no politics. “Not quite a hotel”, in their own words — take them at it.

Planning your stay.

• Low season (May, June, the first week of July, September) – minimum 4 nights.
• High season (July and August) – minimum 6 nights, with check-in on weekends only.
• October – exclusivity rentals or groups only.
• Two booking formulas – strict or modifiable under conditions: read their price policies page and pick deliberately.
• Returning guests – 10% off the room, requested by email before booking.

Good to know. In late July and August the family recommends reserving a private boat tour well in advance — they arrange it by email — while the rest of the year it isn’t necessary. On flights, their advice is equally practical: DAT flies year-round from Palermo, Trapani and Catania, with seasonal weekend routes by Volotea from northern Italy and ITA from Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino. A day inland pairs naturally with the island’s winery tours and vineyard walks. Rates aren’t published — use the site’s booking engine for live availability or write directly.

The restaurant. The estate kitchen now trades under its own name, Amuni, and is open to non-residents as well as guests — see our restaurants guide for what it serves and when. Produce comes from the four hectares here and from the family’s second farm at Salemi, in the hills near Trapani.

Contacts & booking. Official site parcodeisesi.com ↗ • Restaurant Amuni ↗ • Phone +39 379 186 4567 • Email [email protected].

Coste Ghirlanda Wine Estate Dammusi

Sleep inside a working winery in the fertile heart of the island. Coste Ghirlanda is first of all a wine estate — one of the names behind the renaissance of Pantelleria’s dry volcanic whites — that hosts guests in a handful of ancient dammusi scattered among its vines. The home estate covers nearly six hectares on the edge of the Piana di Ghirlanda, where the valley slopes gently upward (hence “Coste”), with some ten thousand Zibibbo bush vines behind traditional dry-stone terracing, fruit and citrus trees, and an orange grove sheltered inside an Arab garden of Pantellerian dry stone that fills the air with orange blossom.

Three estates, one landscape. Montagnole, the second estate, faces east toward Sicily from inside a nature reserve: nearly fifteen hectares of terraced vineyards — about twenty-five thousand vines, plus capers, olives and fruit trees — sloping down to the sea, with thirteen ancient dammusi that the estate’s Montagnole Project is progressively restoring in the traditional building style. In spring, flowering lemon and peach trees mix with broom, mastic, rock rose and the rest of the Mediterranean scrub. The third, the Nikà estate in the south-west, runs five hectares of century-old olive trees — more than two hundred of them — and small terraced vineyards above the sea, facing Tunisia at sunset; local telling has it that a temple once stood here, and the owners are happy to pass the legend on.

The guest dammusi. These are true old farm dammusi — the estate likes to recall that their little arched alcoves once welcomed bridal couples, and the masonry benches outside, the ducchène, rested farmers after the day’s work:

• Il Silenzio del Bosco (4 guests) – the highest dammuso on the estate, centuries old outside and quietly modern inside, with wide outdoor space, an old carob tree for shade and a cannizzo pergola for long lunches; the name — “the silence of the woods” — is a fair description of the soundtrack.
• La Viola del Pensiero (2 guests) – a tiny violet-walled dammuso looking across the Valley of Ghirlanda to the sea, with cooking space outdoors among the olives, palm-leaf pergolas for shade, and a corner of the Arab garden for reading under the jasmine.
• Dammuso dell’Amore (2 guests) – wedged into a rock wall at the estate’s edge, its interior deliberately left in the original rustic state with a few contemporary touches: a small love-nest, in the estate’s own words, and the honeymooners’ obvious pick.

Estate life. The heart of the property is the Wine Laboratory, where the wines are made and tasted; in the evening, wooden pathways through the vineyards lead you there to join the “Friends of Coste” for a glass, and a small sales outlet stocks the wines and gourmet jars to take home. Its central position makes it a natural base for the Giro delle Cantine wine routes.

On this side of the island. From the Piana di Ghirlanda you’re well placed for the east coast: the twin coves of Cala Tramontana and Cala Levante, the hot pools of Cala Gadir, the pebble shore of Martingana and the coastal walk to the Arco dell’Elefante are all short drives away.

Contacts & booking. Official site costeghirlanda.it ↗ • Phone +39 333 391 3695 or +39 0923 187 5997 • Email [email protected]. Rates on request.

Agriturismo Zibibbodoro

A family farm stay on the island’s west side, above Scauri. Zibibbodoro sits at Sotto Coste Sciuvechi 16, between the localities of Penna and Sciuvechi, on farmland planted with Zibibbo vines, capers, olives and fruit trees. It’s run personally by Claudia and Giovanni, who answer their own phones — the kind of place where booking is a conversation rather than a form — and the same family umbrella covers a second property, Kuddianera, marketed alongside the main farm.

The dammusi. Six units in all, four of them around the central building that hosts the pool and the breakfast area, plus quieter “relaxation dammusi” set about a kilometre deeper into the farm for guests who want maximum seclusion:

• Superior and Deluxe (4 guests each, around 70 m²) – the roomiest options for families or two couples travelling together.
• Exclusive (4 guests, around 80 m², two bathrooms) – the top of the range, and the one to fight over.
• Grande (3 guests, around 65 m²) – odd-numbered parties, solved.
• Medio and Medio Plus (2 guests each, around 40 m²) – compact couples’ dammusi with everything where it should be.

Why stay here. The location earns its keep twice over. First, food: you’re a few minutes from Scauri, one of the island’s best eating villages, with pastry stops for baci panteschi and the island’s desserts. Second, water: this is the right side of the island for the thermal coast — the warm sea-cave of Sataria, where hot springs meet the sea inside a stone grotto, and the coves of Cala Nikà are both close by on the road south. Each unit shows live availability on the site’s booking pages, but the fastest route is usually a WhatsApp message to the owners.

Contacts & booking. Official site zibibbodoro.com ↗ • Claudia +39 334 929 0243 (also WhatsApp) • Giovanni +39 380 288 3109 • Email [email protected]. Rates on request by dammuso and season.

Agriturismo Zinedi

The island’s original agriturismo — and the only one of these eight that publishes its rates. Zinedi calls itself the first agriturismo born on Pantelleria, and it still works like the classic model: rooms on a working farm, a restaurant built on the farm’s own produce, and owners who help you organise everything else. It sits at Località Zinedi, 5 km from the town centre and 800 m from the sea, immersed in Mediterranean scrub — rosemary, heather, the yellow accents of wild broom — with a panoramic view over Specchio di Venere, the turquoise crater lake; the crater rim walk starts practically below the property.

Rooms and grounds. The lodgings are ground-floor “dammusato” apartments — vaulted roofs and lava-stone walls up to two metres thick, bioclimatic architecture centuries ahead of the term — each with a reed-shaded cannizzato terrace and a ducchena, the traditional masonry bench, looking onto flower gardens, the cobalt sea or the island’s fiery sunsets. Unlike the purist estates, rooms here do have air conditioning, and bathrooms come with hairdryers; there are about thirty beds in total, so it’s one of the larger farm stays on the island without ever feeling like a hotel. Around the rooms, paved paths thread through dry-stone walls and ornamental gardens — bougainvillea, hibiscus, oleander and geraniums against black lava earth — down to a pool with a hydromassage zone on the sea side.

The farm on your plate. Jams, typical sauces, capers, oil and wine are all produced on the property, sold at the farm shop and cooked into the restaurant’s menu — and if eating it makes you want to learn it, the island’s cooking classes and home dining scene is the logical next step. The farm is also a working base for excursions on foot or on horseback, and runs its own vehicle-rental service — car and scooter sorted in the same email as your room.

Published rates (per person, per day, as listed on their site for the current season — reconfirm when booking).

• June–July: €60–70 • August: €80 • September and October: €60.
• Included: transfers to and from the airport or port, daily cleaning, mid-week towel change, parking, and assistance booking flights, ferries and rentals.
• Children under 10: 30% off • Deposit: 20% at booking, balance paid on arrival.

Contacts & booking. Official site agriturismozinedi.com ↗ • Phone / WhatsApp +39 331 871 0820 (landline +39 0923 914023) • Email [email protected].

Le Ballute Agriresort

Four dammusi, nine guests maximum, and hosts who live on the property. Le Ballute takes its name from the Sicilian word for the holm oak — a grove of century-old ones shades the edge of the property — and sits at Strada per Randazzo, Località Mueggen 8, on the hidden inland plateau the owners call “an island in the island”. Vineyards, olive groves and fig trees cover the slopes below Montagna Grande, whose summit trail is the classic walk on this side of Pantelleria. Giancarlo and Matilde — mountain people by origin, he from Valtellina, she born by a lake — host at most nine guests at a time, live on site and are available around the clock, which shapes the whole experience: less hotel, more staying with friends who happen to own a corner of the island.

The dammusi. Each of the four has a genuinely different past:

• Vulcano – one dramatic open space in exposed black stone under a hand-cut Saracen vault, once a grain store, now the romantic pick; its outdoor ducchena bench looks straight at the horizon.
• Venere – the property’s history lesson: Punic-era water tanks below, an 1800s spinning mill upstairs, restored front, and today a living room with two arched alcoves (a double and a single) looking over Zibibbo vines to the sea.
• Nettuno – always a residence, with a kitchenette painted the traditional insect-repelling Arab blue; sleeps three, wrapped outside in rosemary, myrtle and strawberry trees.
• Eolo – a former mule-driven mill at the property’s entrance and the most private of the four: two single beds behind a narrow, almost monastic passage, a bathroom carved in stone, and its own barbecue pergola with stone table for dinners outside.

Life at the resort. Days start with breakfast under the big cannizzato at the club house, which doubles as the evening gathering point for tastings of the farm’s beans, capers, olives and tomatoes with a glass of passito — the shared-table sociability is the point here, not an accident. Scattered around the grounds: a hydromassage pool set into the valley view, hammocks in the holm-oak wood where a book and a mulberry granita fill the siesta hours, a small open-air Wi-Fi “office” facing the vineyards, an archery range with four school bows, and a canopy bed facing the sea for the romantics. Light pollution is essentially zero; the Milky Way is part of the furniture.

Excursions and the garden. The hosts organise boat trips along the coast to hidden bays and guided treks, including the island’s natural thermal circuit — the lake, the natural sauna above Sibà near the Favare Grande steam vents, and the hot shoreline pools of Cala Gadir. One more thing to see without leaving: the property’s Arab garden — a walled circular citrus enclosure of the type that dots the island — is among the oldest on Pantelleria.

Contacts & booking. Official site pantellerialeballute.com ↗ • Phone +39 339 334 3975 • Email [email protected]. Rates on request.

Il Baglio Pantelleria

The only true baglio on the island — a 1700s courtyard farmstead turned four-dammusi guesthouse. A baglio (“u bagghiu” in Sicilian) is the fortified farm-courtyard of western Sicily: living quarters and farm buildings closed around a central patio, built to keep the wind out and the household life in. This one dates to around 1700 and is the only construction of its kind on Pantelleria. It stands in the archaeological zone of the Sesi — the Bronze-Age stone burial towers of the Mursia settlement are effectively next door — about 400 metres from the coast as the crow flies, 7 minutes’ drive from Pantelleria town and 12 from the airport: countryside quiet with town convenience, a combination most island stays can’t offer.

The layout. Four independent dammusi — Gelso, Limone, Cappero and Arancio — open onto the internal patio that gives the place its character: a shared courtyard that works like a tiny village square without sacrificing each unit’s independence. The hosts, Dino and Carlo, run it personally, and guest reviews return to the same three points with remarkable consistency: the quiet, the starry sky, and the quality of the owners’ island advice — the sort of hosts who plan your next day at breakfast if you let them.

Who it suits. The owners pitch it as ideal for couples, and that’s accurate: intimate scale, a timeless Mediterranean atmosphere, scents and slow rhythms rather than resort services. Being on the town side of the island, restaurants and the port are minutes away, and the north-east swimming spots make an easy outing — the deep-blue inlet of Cala Cinque Denti and the lighthouse loop of the Punta Spadillo Trail chain together into a fine half-day between swims and views.

Contacts & booking. Official site ilbagliopantelleria.com ↗ • Phone +39 328 679 7715 • Email [email protected]. Rates on request.

Zubebi Resort

The polished end of the farm-stay spectrum: a 4-star resort built into a dammusi estate near the crater lake. Zubebi — from the Arabic zabib, the dried Zibibbo grape — occupies its own contrada at Via Zubebi, 91017 Pantelleria (TP), between the town and Specchio di Venere. Its dammusi were built in lava stone and embellished, in the resort’s own telling, with corial, crystal and ceramics by old Pantelleria masters; inside, an ethnic style mixes unique pieces from distant cultures with fine furnishings, and every suite has a spacious terrace for the island’s iridescent sunsets over the sea.

Suites and services. Accommodation comes in two clear categories — Deluxe Suites, airy and bright with refined fabrics, and Superior Suites, nestled in the gardens with sea-view terraces — rather than a jumble of unit types. Services are genuinely hotel-grade for this island: a restaurant on the property, a wellness centre, a pool, and breakfast served where you prefer it — on the patio, by the crescent-shaped pool or on your suite’s own terrace. If you want the farm-stay landscape but consider certain comforts non-negotiable, this is the address among the eight.

The wine-farm side. The grounds keep the agricultural identity alive — vineyards and gardens thread between the dammusi, echoing the estate’s grape-growing name — and the location sits well for exploring the island’s wine culture, from winery tours to the Zibibbo story told across this whole page. The lake, the town and the airport are all within a few minutes’ drive.

Booking. Zubebi is the only estate on this page with true real-time online booking: the site’s engine shows live availability and rate types, including a flexible bed-and-breakfast rate payable at the hotel. Check the offers page before booking, then book direct.

Contacts & booking. Official site zubebi.com ↗ • Phone +39 0923 697033 • Email [email protected].