Inside Italy’s Most Romantic Hotels with Marie-Louise Sciò - 237 - Alain Elkann Interviews

CURATING THE VERY DIFFERENT IDENTITIES OF THE PELLICANO HOTELS GROUP. Marie-Louise Sciò is CEO of the Pellicano Hotels group in Italy, which today comprises Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole in Tuscany, La Posta Vecchia Hotel near Rome, and Mezzatorre Hotel & Thermal Spa in Ischia. The youngest child of hotelier Roberto Sciò, Marie-Louise studied design and architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA and then worked in interior design beside Massimo Zompa in her native city of Rome before returning to her first love, Hotel Il Pellicano, her father’s establishment in which she grew up. “I curate the whole aesthetic experience of the hotels” “We have Il Pellicano lovers, we have Mezzatorre lovers, and we have La Posta Vecchia lovers, but it’s the same very international clientele” “There’s a magic about it. The region is great, the atmosphere is great”