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An owner-run guesthouse in the Versilia hills above the coast — twelve rooms, vintage and Art Deco finds, a contemporary-art collection, a salt-water pool and home-cooked dinners.
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Need To Know
- Twelve individually styled rooms and suites — standard, superior, deluxe, junior suite and suite — each with a view over the hills, no two alike
- Seasonal: open from late March to early November
- An owner-run guesthouse, not a hotel: no reception desk, two open kitchens, a help-yourself ethos, three-night minimum stay
- Breakfast and several dinners a week cooked by the chef for resident guests; a weekly cooking class for up to four
- A salt-water pool heated to 32C, a hillside whirlpool, yoga and massages; pet-friendly, with dog-sitting
- A rotating contemporary-art collection throughout; private beach-club access at Marina di Pietrasanta
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The host — Riccardo Barsottelli, a Tuscan with a fashion past, runs the Locanda as a home rather than a hotel: no reception desk, no counter, just the welcome of a friend with very good taste.
- The art — the owner's own collection and rotating works by sculptors from nearby Pietrasanta fill every corner, set against vintage and Art Deco finds gathered across Paris, London and Buenos Aires.
- The pool — a salt-water pool heated to 32 degrees among the olive trees, with a whirlpool tucked into the hillside and day beds set for the long view down to the Versilia coast.
- The food — breakfast and a handful of dinners a week cooked by the chef for resident guests only, eaten almost in the kitchen; a Wednesday cooking class for no more than four.
- The setting — a hilltop above Camaiore with the sea and the marble Apuan Alps in view, five kilometres from the beach, with a private beach club arranged at Marina di Pietrasanta.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Via la Stretta 231, Camaiore, 55042, ITALY
Travel Info
The guesthouse sits on a hill at Camaiore in Versilia, about 35 minutes from Pisa airport and a similar run to Florence; the nearest station is Pietrasanta, around 8 km away. A car is useful for the coast and hill towns, and private airport transfers can be arranged.
Nearby Places
• By Car: Pisa Airport is a 35 minute drive • By Train: The nearest railway station is Pietrasanta which is 8km from the Locanda • By Plane: Florence and Pisa airports are the closest, and Milan is approx. 2.5hrs away.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-09
Expert Review
Origins
Locanda al Colle began as a farmhouse, and it has never quite stopped feeling like a home. The oldest part of the building dates to 1760, when it was raised for the monks of Camaiore; later it passed to a Roman family as their country house, and was eventually sold off in two parts. One of those parts gave Riccardo Barsottelli his start — a small bed and breakfast opened in 2000 — before a more ambitious restoration around 2010 united the buildings into the guesthouse that stands today, looking out over the olive groves to the Versilia coast.
Barsottelli is a Tuscan who spent two decades in fashion, travelling Europe and collecting as he went, and the Locanda is the sum of those years: vintage and Art Deco furniture gathered in Paris, London and Buenos Aires, set against the bones of the old farmhouse with the help of the architect Marco Innocenti. The result deliberately resists the word hotel — there is no reception desk, no porter, no counter — only the sense of arriving at the home of a friend with eccentric and very good taste.
What gives the house its particular character is art. Barsottelli's own collection fills the rooms, and is joined by rotating works from the sculptors of nearby Pietrasanta, the marble town that has drawn artists since the nineteenth century; pieces are shown throughout the guesthouse and may be bought. Around it sit the pleasures of an unhurried Tuscan hill: a salt-water pool among the olives, a chef cooking dinner for the dozen or so guests in residence, and a terrace where the view runs down to the sea. It is small, personal and quietly singular — a place assembled by one person with a clear eye, rather than fitted out to a brand.
Top Secret
The Locanda sits within reach of the Carrara and Seravezza marble quarries — the mountains, now a UNESCO site, where Michelangelo chose the stone for the Pietà. Ask Riccardo to arrange the quarry tour with a local sculptor: you visit a working studio, handle the marble, and come back to a house already full of the art it inspires.
The Review
Locanda al Colle is the rare hotel that insists it is not one. There is no reception desk, no porter, no check-in counter — you drive up through the olive groves above Camaiore and are received like a friend arriving at a private house, which, in spirit, is exactly what it is. The owner, Riccardo Barsottelli, spent two decades in fashion before turning this hillside farmhouse, parts of it dating to 1760, into a guesthouse that is really an extension of his own taste: vintage and Art Deco furniture from Paris and Buenos Aires, his own art collection, and rotating sculpture from the nearby marble town of Pietrasanta, all set against the old Tuscan stone.
The twelve rooms are individually styled and none alike, each looking out over the hills, with the better suites opening to private terraces and fireplaces. But the heart of the place is downstairs and outside: two open kitchens where the chef bakes the morning's bread and pastries and lays out fruit like a still life, a help-yourself ethos that genuinely means it, and dinners cooked a few nights a week for resident guests and eaten almost in the kitchen. A salt-water pool sits among the olives, a whirlpool is hidden in the hillside, and the terrace looks down toward the Versilia coast.
It suits those after the quiet, art-filled, personal end of Tuscany rather than the grand-estate kind: couples, mainly, and anyone content with twelve rooms, no television to speak of and the owner's eye in every corner. The sea is five kilometres off, with a beach club arranged at Marina di Pietrasanta; Lucca, Pisa and the marble mountains are close; and the whole thing runs late March to early November, closing for the Tuscan winter. Small, seasonal and singular — a guesthouse with the soul of a private collection.
