Slowness
Nothing urgent has ever happened in Tuscany. We were reminded of that across ten patient years restoring this house.
Four generations, one hill
Our story
La Casina is the home of the Aldobrandini-Conti family. It belonged to our grandfather Pietro, a farmer and hunter, who received it as part of his marriage in 1947. My father restored it through the 1990s, and today it's us — my sister, our children, and I — who care for it.
The original house dates from the 1700s — a tenant farmhouse, with the stables on the ground floor and the rooms above. When we began the restoration, we decided to hide nothing of what the house had been: the old mangers are still visible, the beams are the same, every roof tile was lifted, cleaned and put back in its place.
We worked with valley craftsmen: Marco the carpenter for the chestnut doors, Luisa for the linens dyed with madder root, Gianni for the terracotta floor. Nothing was bought from a chain, nothing is plastic, nothing shouts. We wanted a house that spoke softly.
Today La Casina hosts four apartments, but it is still our home. We live in the west wing, and when you arrive you'll find us in the courtyard, hands dirty with garden soil and a glass of wine already poured.
~ con amore ~
Our values
Material
Stone, wood, linen, terracotta. Everything you touch here has a story, and the name of the person who made it.
Silence
No piped music, no televisions in the dining room, nothing. Just cicadas, cypresses, and the wind from the Apennines.
Family
We are here. Really here. And it would be our joy to welcome you the way we welcome friends.