| Locanda l'Elisa stands at the feet of a range of hills close to Lucca, and is housed in a villa which, it seems, was rebuilt in the early 18th Century. By a Napoleonic official who arrived in Lucca in the retinue of Elisa Baciocchi. In fact, traces of works effected at that time can be found in the residual colours found under the plastering and in decorative elements still to be found in some rooms. In the conversion to a hotel account was taken of this precedent decoration, creating 10 suites and salons with 18th Century furniture, fabrics and carpets designed on the basis of illustrations from the period and the doors and woodwork taken from the motif found on site. The restaurant is situated in a Victorian style conservatory surrounded by a luxurious garden of bushes, flowers and acquatic plants, crossed by a babbling brook, with a large swimming pool. * Property Closures Property Annually closed 07Jan04 - 11Feb04
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