The host
Opens the door, carries the bags, knows the best table in town.
Since 1923
Our story
A house that has been many things before it was a hotel: a family home, a dye shop, a bakery. We kept what was old and good, and fixed the rest.
- 1923
The house is built for a family of dyers. The lane still smells of soap on Mondays.
- 1968
The ground floor becomes a bakery. The oven is still in our kitchen wall.
- 2019
We buy the house with a leaking roof and a lot of ideas.
- 2022
Locanda opens with twelve rooms and one rule: keep what is old and good.
Three things we never change
Old doors stay
Every original door, tile and beam we could save is still in the house, just somewhere new.
Local first
Linen from a weaver up the hill, bread from across the lane, wine from the island you can see from the roof.
Slow mornings
Breakfast till eleven, check-out at eleven, and nobody knocks before then.
The people
Who you will meet
The cook
Back from the market by nine, cooking by ten, never writes a menu twice.
The one who knows every shop
Ask about a button, a ferry or a dentist. There is always a cousin.