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Villa Sostaga Boutique
€235.80/ Night
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A 19th-century count's hunting villa 500 m above Gargnano, family-run since 2004 — lake-view rooms, new adults-only spa suites, a 700-label cellar and a 40-hectare wood.
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Award Winner 2021
World's Most Stunning Views Hotel
Free extra on us
A wine tasting
Need To Know
- 22 rooms and suites: 16 in the 19th-century villa, plus six newly built adults-only Luxury Spa Suites in a separate building, each with hammam shower and lake-view balcony
- Open in season; the heated pool and garden whirlpool run April to October
- Families welcome in the villa; the spa suites, their building and a garden corner are reserved for adults
- Pets welcome — the house has two of its own
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Villa Junior Suite with lake-view terrace; a Luxury Spa Suite for the private hammam
- Half-board worth taking: the restaurant spans the Veranda, the Liberty room and the Clarabella salon, and hosts weddings
- The MySpa private spa, massages in the lake-view pavilion and outdoor Skyfitness area book on site
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 10:00.
We Love
- The view that named the award — 500 metres above the lake, the panorama runs from Sirmione to Monte Baldo, and every terrace, pool lounger and breakfast table faces it.
- The Seresinas in residence — Gabriele swapped Le Mans and DTM pit lanes for this hillside in 2004, Gabriella dressed every room, and son Francesco now runs the house and its cellar.
- Dinner with a pedigree — the kitchen hands down the recipes of Martina Bazzani, Gabriella's grandmother and Gabriele D'Annunzio's personal cook, beside Francesco's 700-label wine list.
- The new spa suites and MySpa — six adults-only Luxury Spa Suites with hammam showers and lake balconies, plus a bookable private spa of whirlpool, sauna, ice cascade and salt wall.
- A 40-hectare private wood — walking paths from the door, the heated panoramic pool and Garden Relax whirlpool from April to October, and an adults-only garden corner in French furniture.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Villa Sostaga Boutique
€235.80 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Villa Sostaga, Gargnano, Lake Garda, Italy
Travel Info
Verona and Milan-Bergamo airports are about 1h30 by car; transfers can be arranged. The final approach from Navazzo is a 700-metre single-lane road with its own traffic light. Free parking at the villa; Gargnano on the shore is 15 minutes below.
Nearby Places
Bergamo Airport (BGY)
108km
Last Updated: 2026-06-04
Expert Review
Origins
Villa Sostaga was built at the end of the nineteenth century by Count Giuseppe Feltrinelli as a hunting residence, planted on a hilltop in forty hectares of its own wood, five hundred metres above the lake at Gargnano. The architect Alberico Belgiojoso later softened it into the family's summer villa, and distinguished guests came up the hill for the cool air and the view. Then, for more than twenty years in the late twentieth century, the house simply stood closed.
Gabriele Seresina found it that way in 2004 — reachable by a potholed dirt track, the gardens vanished — at the end of his own first life. He had founded the racing outfit Euroteam in 1968 and run it through the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the DTM, first as the official Alfa Romeo team and later with Opel; four decades of circuits and hotel rooms had taught him precisely what a hotel should be, and he retired from racing to build it. He restored the villa with his wife Gabriella, whose eye chose every textile, chair and chandelier in the house.
The second generation now runs it. Francesco Seresina keeps the front of house and a cellar he has grown past 700 labels, hunting small, little-known producers; and the kitchen guards the family's best inheritance — the recipes of Gabriella's grandmother, Martina Bazzani, who cooked personally for Gabriele D'Annunzio, the poet whose Vittoriale stands on the shore below. A count built the house and a poet's cook seasons it; the Seresinas simply opened the doors.
Top Secret
You will be met on arrival by Rocco and Gina, the house's two four-legged hosts — consummate professionals with a regal charm about them. Once settled, ask Francesco for the cellar: the free wine tasting is the best introduction to a 700-label list built from producers you will not have heard of, which is the point.
The Review
The approach earns the arrival: the climb from Gargnano to Navazzo, then a 700-metre single-lane lane with its own traffic light, and finally the villa on its hilltop with the whole lake unrolled below, Sirmione to Monte Baldo. Nothing about it feels like a hotel, which is the family's intention. Frescoed ceilings, antiques, a black piano, doors trimmed in blue — the house reads as what it is: a count's villa kept as a home.
Days run on the view. Breakfast takes the terrace; the heated pool and the Garden Relax whirlpool hold the panorama from April to October, with four-poster day beds for the committed; the wood supplies shaded walks and the Skyfitness area an open-air workout; and the adults-only garden, furnished in Francesco's French finds, keeps a quieter corner. The new spa suites raise the romance — private hammam showers, lake balconies, their own adults-only building — and the MySpa books by the hour for two: whirlpool, sauna and hammam, ice cascade, a salt wall, and nobody else.
Evenings belong to the table. The restaurant moves between the Veranda, the Liberty room and the candlelit Clarabella salon, cooking Garda's lake fish and the family's inherited repertoire — Martina Bazzani's recipes, refined for the poet she once fed — while Francesco pours discoveries from a list few on the lake can match. Stay half-board and stay up the hill: the town's lights below and the silence behind are the whole argument of the place.
