Locanda L'Elisa Lucca

Locanda l'Elisa is a little deep-lavender villa in Lucca of the last 1800’s, only 5 minutes driving from the historical centre of Lucca, 25 minutes from Pisa Airport and 45 minutes from Florence one. Locanda l'Elisa is appreciated not only for his strategic position but even because, at the end of a day spent to visit historical towns, museums or other, it is always beautiful to come back home! Locanda l’Elisa is borned just for this reason and from the conviction, matured after years of experience, that only in little houses it is possible to give excellent but rich of charme hospitality at the same time.

Only 5 plants with tall stem remained from the previous garden because the space all around the villa has been completely transformed in a garden rich of shrubs, flowers, aquatic plants; it has been an huge commitment but the luxuriant and coloured vegetation, that now characterized it, seem to reward so much hard work.

A little and babbling brook frame the garden where there is an irregular shaped swimming pool (it follows the ground) which melts perfectly with the landscape. Over the final part of the swimming pool a little wood gazebo has been built, place of meeting for drinks, reading and relax.

10 rooms and sitting areas have been realized, all furnished with 1800’s furniture, clothes and moquette obtained from paintings of that age, boiserie and frames obtained from the ones refound here and made by artisans of remarkable value.

It is composed by only 10 rooms equipped with the best comforts (telephones with direct external line, tv sat, radio, modem access, minibar, safe with a personal code, hair-dryer). The advanced level technical equipments allow a perfect acclimatization of the whole house, and suitable expedients, such as a double door, realized the complete sound-proof of the rooms.

Guests of restaurant “Gazebo” can taste an high standard level cuisine which derives from new combinations and couplings for old savours and traditional dishes of local cuisine. A very good service and an excellent wine list accompany every dish.

For the restaurant room an English conservatory of Victorian Age and with a particular shape has been used: a semicircular glass window perfectly frames the room and it allows to taste every dish proposed by the Chef, in a romantic and evocative atmosphere, completely surrounded from the luxuriant garden full of flowers.

The town lies in a point of easy access and at short distance from some of the most known towns in Italy and in the world: Pisa with its Leaning Tower is only 15 minutes far, in 50 minutes you can admire the eternal beauty of Florence, and Versilia region with Viareggio in Liberty style, the famous Forte dei Marmi and Pietrasanta with Carrara marble’s sculptures are only 25 minutes far. Lucca is a departure point for one day excursions in Siena and San Gimignano, to Cinque Terre or Portofino.