Casa Tognarello, Diecimo - Borgo a Mozzano - Lucca and Viareggio

This spacious 300-year-old farmhouse has bags of character. The owners have cleverly added touches of modern luxury in the bathrooms and kitchen, while the original terracotta floors, stone walls, high ceilings, exposed beams and scattered antiques speak of history. Casa Tognarello will easily absorb up to eight guests, its large rooms, terraces and private pool offering parties of family or friends the chance to gather or chill out separately, as moods dictate.

It will be genuinely difficult to stir from this house and substantial garden, with its pool and views of surrounding mountainous terrain, but medieval Lucca and Barga are close by, with Pisa less than an hour’s drive. If your party is more activity orientated, the beach and carnival at Viareggio are also within easy reach; or choose from local walking, cycling, tennis (Lucca) or golf (Massarosa). In the heat, the house is delightfully cool. Two terraces, both with table and chairs, offer alternatives for outdoor dining in a balmy evening breeze. As the summer wanes, an open fireplace in the lounge beckons.

Ground Floor

Lounge
Sofa, three armchairs, bookcase, three occasional tables, two chairs, fireplace, entrance.

Kitchen-Diner
Fully equipped, dresser, table and chairs, entrance.

Bedroom 1
Double bed (cannot be converted to twins), armchair, bookcases, wardrobe, table, three chairs.

Bathroom 1
Shower, sink, WC, door to lounge, further door to garden.

First Floor

Bedroom 2
Double bed (cannot be converted to twins), wardrobe, dresser, side table, chair.

Bedroom 3
Double bed (cannot be converted to twins), wardrobe, two chests of drawers, armchair.

Bedroom 4
Double bed (cannot be converted to twins), wardrobe, two chests of drawers, chair.

Bathroom 2
Corner bath with handheld shower, sink, WC, armchair.

Bathroom 3
Shower, sink, WC, washing machine.

Our Thoughts
Casa Tognarello’s beautiful rooms and rural setting offer a holiday that will live in the memory for a lifetime. Where else will you find an artwork made from a 1951 Moto Guzzi motorbike on the bathroom wall, together with an exquisite antique side table and bookcase of German literature? One day, the pool will be the favourite hangout, the next perhaps the welcoming kitchen or light-filled lounge. Generous is the word that seems to sum it all up.

Notes
Four bedrooms. Three bathrooms. An elderly person lives next door whose cats you are likely to see, but this will not affect your privacy. You are welcome to help yourself to fruit from the garden.
Mosquito Screens In Bedrooms
Fire Place: open

Pool
The oval-shaped swimming pool, surrounded by stone paving (supplied with sunbeds) and a well-maintained lawn, offers a panorama of the surrounding mountains. To one side a vine-covered pergola gives shade. The water is accessed via metal ladder steps.
The pool is chlorine cleansed, it is 8x4 metres and 1.4 metres deep. It's open from early May until mid-September, weather permitting.