A horse outpost and geodesic landmark since the year 600, Casa Cavalleggeri found its second life in 1939 when Count Uguccione and Countess Lea Della Gherardesca commissioned architect Tullio Rossi to transform it into a hunting and summer residence. Today it remains one of the most singular and historically layered houses on the Tuscan coast — a property of genuine aristocratic provenance set on seven hectares of private parkland between the Port of Baratti and San Vincenzo, with the Mediterranean Sea a short walk away through the protected Rimigliano Nature Reserve.
Eight bedrooms — three doubles, two twins, and three singles — accommodate up to 13 guests across a ground floor arranged around a large living area, formal dining room, office, and kitchen. A generous terrace leads directly from the living and dining spaces, overlooking the garden, the swimming pool, and the tennis courts below. Most remarkable of all is the property's private beach cabin, built on stilts directly on the shore — one of very few such structures on this stretch of coast, and the kind of detail that makes Casa Cavalleggeri entirely impossible to replicate.
The surrounding landscape rewards exploration in every direction. Fifteen minutes north lies Bolgheri, home to Sassicaia, Ornellaia, and Guado al Tasso — three of Italy's most celebrated wineries. A few kilometres south, the Baratti bay and the ancient town of Populonia offer Etruscan ruins scattered among beautiful beaches and forested hillsides, in one of Tuscany's most quietly extraordinary corners.
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