Welcome to ‘La Cerreta’

Be different and head for the hills. La Cerreta is an old farmhouse in the beautiful and unspoilt Garfagnana region of Northern Tuscany. The chestnut-covered hills are less well-known, more remote and somewhat wilder than the southern Tuscany everyone knows and loves, but no less captivating.Wind up through the Serchio Valley from Lucca, up and up, until you reach this secluded hideaway with views of the breathtaking variety.

Inside it’s typical rustic simplicity with beams, open fireplace in the kitchen and a traditional stove in the sitting-room. Sybarites might want to bag the cool (in both senses) third bedroom which has its own entrance and shower room and one of those vast beds that you just have to dive on. There’s a pretty terrace at the front for breakfast, but you’ll more than likely fancy the shady deck round the back for lunch and supper - you’ll feel as if you’re dining in the tree tops. If all gets too relaxing, you can always pop down the road to the six-hole golf course with its dinky clubhouse, or pack a picnic and stride off in any direction. Jazz and opera fans can head for arty Barga - an irresistible medieval hilltop town where there’s always a festival in the offing.