Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel

Romazzino stands on a green outcrop above Spiaggia del Romazzino, a few kilometres from Porto Cervo, in gardens of myrtle and juniper that the hotel has grown for sixty years. Every published description calls the beach private. It is not quite that. The main stretch below the hotel runs into the public beach alongside it and is shared with it, while several smaller coves within the grounds are private in practice. That distinction is the whole of this entry. A house can preside over a shore without owning all of it, and the register's job is to say which part is which.

The Aga Khan IV opened the hotel in 1965 to a design by Michele Busiri Vici, one of the architects on his Costa Smeralda committee: whitewashed walls, curved forms, arched windows, a plan that steps down the outcrop. It is counted at about a hundred keys, published as seventy-eight rooms, sixteen suites and six villas, the villas set apart in the gardens with their own pools. Two pools serve the hotel, one saltwater and one fresh. Belmond took over management in 2024 after four decades in Marriott's Luxury Collection, the property itself remaining with Qatar's Smeralda Holding.

Presiding is not owning. The hotel sits above the bay and reads as its proprietor, and for the long beach that reading is wrong. The small coves are the part that answers this collection's question.

Gardens as the boundary. What separates Romazzino from the road and the neighbours is sixty years of planting on an outcrop. It is a soft edge, and it works, and it is not a wall.

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• Belmond fact sheet and operator record - inaugurated by the Aga Khan IV in 1965, designed by Michele Busiri Vici; Belmond assumed management in 2024; saltwater and freshwater pools
• Trade listing - about one hundred keys, given as seventy-eight rooms, sixteen suites and six villas, the villas standing apart in the gardens with private pools
• HOUSE OBSERVATION, 03.09.2026, inspected in person by the House - the main beach below the hotel adjoins and is shared with the public beach; several smaller coves within the grounds are private in practice. Published descriptions calling the beach private are not accurate as stated.

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · The Register · Edition 2026 · LHL-E-133
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