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Fabulous location, wonderful villa, cooking and swimming and hilltop runs filled our days. Attentive and thoughtfulhost in Caterina and marvellous food and cooking fun just down the road with Marta and her family. A very special birthday. Grazie! x

Lovely old property with a rustic style with original floor tiles and high ceilings. The garden and pool were especially loved and well used during the very hot week that we stayed. The garden had lots of different areas to sit. We tended to follow the shade! Luca was extremely helpful and responded quickly to any queries or requests. He also gave us ideas of places to go. We all enjoyed it when he popped around, despite none of us being able to speak Italian, we made do with a mixture of languages and realised later we should have used Google translate! As keen gardeners ourselves we loved his seedlings. It was an amazing location and unbeknownst to us we'd booked during the Puccini festival so we were able to enjoy an outdoor opera performance. Good links to Pisa, Florence, Lucca from local train station. Cinque Terre if you have a car. We enjoyed a really good meal at the chalet restaurant by the lake. The improvements wed suggest would be to have more than the minimum crockery and cutlery, sharp knives and the listing should mention that air conditioning is only in three bedrooms. Fans were provided in the others but this was not clear on the listing. If renting in cooler months, it might be worth noting that there is no indoor sitting room. The listing showed two kitchens but there was only one. As we used the BBQ outside and did most of the food prep outside that was fine for summer.