Grand Hotel Sitea

Grand Hotel Sitea has no golf course of its own, but golfers will find several clubs around Turin, all independent of the hotel.

Closest to the city is Golf Club Stupinigi, a 9-hole layout inaugurated in 1953 on flat ground with water hazards, inside a 14-hectare urban park. It also has a driving range with 24 bays, 11 of them covered, and welcomes guests all year.

Golf Club Moncalieri, also 9 holes, opened in 2002 with a view of the town's castle. Circolo Golf Torino La Mandria lies in a former Savoy hunting reserve, now home to the Reggia di Venaria Reale. For a day at altitude there is Golf Club Sestrieres, 18 holes at 2,035 metres.

The hotel was founded on 19 February 1925 by Emiliano Lera, a cavaliere who had directed major international hotels. Management has since passed through four generations: to his son Giuseppe «Nino» in 1950, to Giulio and Maria Clotilde Lera in the 1970s, and in 2010 to Federico and Niccolò Buratti, Maria Clotilde's sons.

The building has changed over time: in the 1960s the inner garden became a veranda and the entrance moved to Via Carlo Alberto 35, and in the 1990s the fifth-floor attic was converted into suites. Sitea has been a Historic Venue of Italy since 2000 and gained its five stars in 2018.

Rooms come in six categories, from the Comfort Small Double to the 30 m² Junior Suite in Verde Alpi marble or antique travertine, including six top-floor Executive rooms with parquet floors and at least 30 m². In 2019 came the Royal Palace Luxury Suites, six five-star suites at Via Cavour 13, and in 2023 the Luxury Lodges in Sestriere.

Carignano is the restaurant of Davide Scabin, a Piedmontese chef who formerly held two stars at Rivoli. According to the MICHELIN Guide it has one star and serves a single tasting menu, «Sangon Beach», an ironic homage to a Gipo Farassino song: the dining room floor is covered in Spanish sand and guests walk in sandals. It is open Tuesday to Saturday, 7.30 to 10 pm.

The hotel also runs Carlo e Camillo, a MICHELIN Guide selection, and the American Bar, open every day from 4.30 pm to midnight, where barman Beppe Loi makes the Sitea cocktail and an Americano served shaken, without soda.

• An acronym for a name. Sitea stands for Società Italiana Terme e Alberghi.
• Armstrong in Turin. In 1935 Louis Armstrong gave his first concert in the city; the hotel also recalls Maradona, Muhammad Ali, Tim Burton and Willem Dafoe among its guests.
• Bond's first drink. The Americano, the hotel notes, is the first cocktail James Bond orders in Casino Royale.
• Requisitioned in wartime. In 1944-1945 the hotel was requisitioned by anti-partisan units and closed to the public.
• A centenary. In 2025 the hotel marked one hundred years with a special edition of its cocktail.