This home rental in the Lunigiana, in undiscovered northern Tuscany, offers the best in Tuscany accommodation, Italy.
Casa dell’Unicorno is immersed in the richness of Italian culture and history and in the luxuriant Tuscan countryside. Here you will have the opportunity to relax your body and mind, to taste the best of Italian food and wines, to go sightseeing or to practise swimming, tennis, horse riding, trekking, mountain climbing and golf.
Casa dell’Unicorno was built in 1685 by Carlo Sarteschi for his family and his friends as a summer retreat. The house is located in the upper part of Caugliano, a tiny village set on one of the many Lunigiana hilltops. The ancient stone architecture of the house has been maintained throughout the centuries. During the 18th century the house was inhabited for some years by the monks who had been expelled from the Convent of Soliera by Napoleon. Eventually the house was sold and did not revert back to Sarteschi’s heirs until 1905.
Casa dell’Unicorno is able to provide relaxation as easily today as it did over 300 years ago; yet, being only a couple of hours from Tuscany’s major cities and about one hour from the coast it can also offer much more.
This home rental in the Lunigiana, undiscovered northern Tuscany, is a typical Tuscan “aedes rustica” with its double oak doors opening out onto its stone paved court and a garden with vineyard, olive groves and flowers. On the ground floor you find a long stone vaulted hall leading to a fully equipped kitchen, dominated by a three-metre stone fireplace, and on to the dining and living rooms. In addition there is a double bedroom with an en-suite toilet with shower and a spacious walk-in wardrobe.
On the first floor of this Tuscany accommodation, Italy, you have three bedrooms. The first has a double bed, en-suite toilet with shower, and its windows look out over the rooftops of the village. The second has a double bed, en-suite bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. The room looks out onto the garden. The third bedroom has a double bed, a wardrobe and a private bathroom (non adjacent). This room also looks over the garden.
All the bedrooms are large enough to contain an extra bed or cradle. On the top floor (the so-called tower) you have two more bedrooms, a double and a twin and a toilet with shower. The rooms offer a wide panorama over Caugliano and the other small villages nestled in the rolling valley below, and over the peaks of the Apuan Alps.
