You are driving the car along a country road uphill (like shown on a TV clip for SUV's :-) in the middle of nowhere. You are reaching a small forest, where you can recognize some buildings. At this time you feel like an adventurer. I am a hero, I brought my family safely to that place! (later you will find out, that the housekeeper drives the road every day with a Cinquecento ;-). You are stepping to the main building and knock on the door. A pretty woman opens and says ,Benvenuti a Cà Battista, sono Simonetta, avete un buon viaggio?' and you will feel the warm welcome in her words.
Simonetta is an excellent hostess with a sense of natural attendance, that can hardly be found anywhere else. She loves Cà Battista, the region around her property and she has a strong relation to the nature. She shares all the good feelings with her guests and take them into a world, which is a bit slower, more relaxed and a cleaning for your soul. You feel home from the first minute.
In Cà Battista we stayed in Fienile Suite. Often, when you book a holiday house, you will find nice pictures on the web, and when you arrive, it can look rather disappointing. We were kindly amazed, when the house was much more nice than shown on the web. Big, clean rooms, fully equipped modern kitchen, comfortable beds, walls with different soft and inviting colors, big windows on two sides, one side to the park (which I first named 'forest') the other to a big garden an view to the mountains (Mt.Nerone, 1525m) and almost endless widness, ...breathtaking beautiful.
At the edge of the big lawn, the swimming pool, big enough for real swimmimng and place for lots of kids. By the way, we stayed in middle of October and we were still swimming. The pool is placed on a small hillslope. When you look with the right angle, the sky touches the pool border. This gives you the feeling you are swimming in heaven (to be honest on October your are closer to heaven on the canvas chair beside the pool ;-)
Finally our recommendation for Cà Battista:
Actually, this place should be protected as an insider tip. But since Simonetta would be sad without having guests, we will give her and Cà Battista the best rating we ever gave to a holiday house. We spent perfect two weeks, without any troubles and with lots of good memories in our soul.
Simonetta, we will visit you again, thank you for all your support. What you did for us, was an act of love.