Salina, August 15, 2025 There are people who do not simply live in the present, but shape it. Visionary, determined, able to look beyond and turn imagination into reality. Clara Rametta was one of them. A woman who made her life into a project, and her project into a gift for everyone.
With a clear path, studded with awards (the Gambero Rosso’s Emerging Chef of the Year award in 2017 and the Michelin Woman Chef of the Year award in 2019), Martina Caruso (class of ’89) has moved Signum into the shortlist of the best restaurants in Italy, together with her brother Luca.
In the international guides, the inevitable chapter “for those traveling alone” is always a little sad, as well as the series of restraints and prohibitions, from not hitchhiking to never be too late in the evening.
Thinking of the Aeolian Islands, the luxuriant nature, the clear sea and the relaxing atmosphere of the summer immediately come to mind.
Salina, in particular, has the most varied environments: the coast, sometimes soft and sometimes jagged, the breath-taking seabed, and the wooded areas that alternate with those cultivated. In the territory, the numerous attractions are areas of naturalistic interest and important archaeological finds.
In 1945 my father Giulio left Capri for Positano. Already in the post-war period it was clear that Capri was moving towards a faster and more distracted kind of visitor. A few people , including my father, escaped to less uprooted and more authentic places.
At first glance the Aeolian Islands may seem very similar to each other, in reality the seven sisters are distinguished from each other by a specific dominant trait. Salina is certainly the “greener” one, due to the rich and luxuriant vegetation that surrounds it.
Care, dedication and passion: Hotel Signum is this and much more. It is a place where nothing is left to chance; a small “borgo”, wisely renovated, where the warm and discreet hospitality is a privilege that tastes of home and in which lose yourself.
