The Locanda dei Duxi's name derives from the first owner's family name that lived inside the building from about the 15th century to the first half of the 20th.
This family was named Castiglione and like the other native families they had several vineyards where they produced grapes for their white wine, the mythical Sciacchetrà.The ancient cellar where they produced the Sciacchetrà is now the Locanda Ca' dei Duxi's breakfast room, where it is possible to observe the classic brick vault and a part of a vault made of typical local stone.
From 1998, the building has belonged to Germano/Raffellini's and it has been refurbished and transformed into the little hotel, also with the help of the European community in order to recover the historical villages and to preserve the historical value.
Given that Ca' dei Duxi is placed in an historical building, the rooms have been conceived with some particular architectural and structural shrewdness in mind.
On the stairs, typically Ligurian, there is a visible part of the wall made of local stone.
"Locanda Ca' dei Duxi" has received the eco-quality recognition, a brand of environmental quality, from the Cinque Terre National Park. |
