History

The hotel takes its name from the charismatic and versatile figure of Frederick II of Swabia, called Stupor Mundi, whose court was a place of meeting between cultures, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Jewish in anticipation of the Sicilian School, the splendor that the rest of Italy knew only two centuries after the Renaissance.
Frederick II of Aragon, prominent figures who succeeded, is the one to whom is attributed the transfer, to Montalbano Elicona from Palermo, the summer royal residence. It seems that the king chosen this arangement because off the  therapeutic properties of Montalbano's water, which still maintains the excellent properties.