CASA AURELIA
A whitewashed cliff house with lemon terraces above a calm bay, the sun setting over the sea
A hillside house above the sea · Since 1911

Casa Aurelia

Twenty-four rooms among lemon terraces and olive groves, above a quiet bay. Come for the view. Stay for the light.
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Sc. 01 — Arrival
Vallescura
Open April – November · 24 rooms & suites

Prologue

Vallescura, 1911 — today

A lookout house from 1911. A roofless ruin full of wild figs. Twenty-four rooms now — and the same light, falling gold across the bay, every evening.

Built as a lookout and farmhouse above Vallescura, the house still keeps the hillside's hours: breakfast among the lemon trees, a swim before lunch, dinner as the lights come on across the bay.

Read our story
The stay — in five scenes

From the gate to the last swim.

Stone steps under pink bougainvillea climb to an old wooden gate above the sea in late sun
Sc. 01 / 05 · 15:00
Arrival

The gate, the lemons, the bay.

Your room is ready from three. Leave the bags with us: the pool and the terrace are yours from the moment you arrive.

Low sun across white bed linen towards open shutters, a sheer curtain lifting over the bay
Sc. 02 / 05 · 18:40
The rooms

Twenty-four rooms. No two alike.

From Garden Rooms among the lemon trees to the Cliff Suite built out over the rocks, furnished by workshops along the coast. From €340 a night, with breakfast.

Candlelit tables along a stone terrace above the bay at dusk, guests dining under string lights
Sc. 03 / 05 · 20:30
The table

Eight tables. One terrace. The whole coast.

Chef Matteo Ferri cooks from the garden, the grove and the morning's catch.

A varnished wooden motorboat at anchor in a turquoise cove under pale cliffs, a swimmer beside it
Sc. 04 / 05 · 10:00
The sea

A boat waiting in the cove.

Boat days along the coast — shared, or just for two.

A long stone-edged pool at blue hour, lanterns reflected in the water beside an arched doorway
Sc. 05 / 05 · 21:30
The spa

Steam, stone and salt water.

A long saltwater pool in the old cistern garden, two treatment rooms and a steam room carved into the hillside. For house guests only.

Casa Aurelia presents

Rooms & Suites

Twenty-four rooms in four kinds, furnished by workshops along the coast.
Garden Rooms
Among the lemon trees, breakfast on your own patio
Sea View Rooms
The bay from the bed, a reading corner by the window
The Cliff Suite
Built out over the rocks, a bed on the open deck
Terrace Suites
A roof terrace, two loungers, dinner served outside

From €340 a night · Breakfast on the terrace included

Ask which room is free
A day here
An ordinary day at Casa Aurelia, in seven frames.

From first coffee to the last light.

07:00 The village wakes
10:00 The roof terrace
11:00 Yoga above the bay
13:30 Lunch from the garden
15:00 Out in the cove
19:00 A glass before dinner
20:30 The last light
The house, in figures
1911
The lookout house is built
24
Rooms and suites
8
Tables on the terrace each evening
2
Treatment rooms in the hillside
31
People on the team
Livia Marchetti in a linen shirt on a terrace among lemon trees, the coast behind her at sunset

Livia MarchettiOwner and hostSince 2014

The house — our story

I bought a ruin with a view, and then I could not leave.

My grandmother was born in Vallescura and left for the city at sixteen. When I came back in 2012, the old lookout house above the harbour was for sale — roofless and full of wild fig trees.
We kept the walls, the stone stairs and the lemon terraces, and asked craftspeople from along the coast to make almost everything else. Casa Aurelia opened in 2014 with nine rooms. Today there are twenty-four.
Look after the trees, the walls and the people, and the hotel looks after itself.
Livia Marchetti
We came for four nights and stayed nine. The view from the Terrace Suite still wakes me up at home.

Hannah & Tomas Berg, Terrace Suite, June

Guest letters

Guest letters

Seasonal offers

Two ways to slow down.

A sea-view room at sunset, doors open onto a balcony over the bay, a bed with white linen

Autumn offer · 15 Sept – 31 Oct

Three Slow Nights

€1,480for two
Three nights in a Sea View Room with everything that makes a stay here unhurried.
  • Three nights with breakfast on the terrace
  • One tasting dinner with paired wines
  • A shared boat day along the coast
  • One 60-minute treatment each at the spa
  • Late check-out until 15:00
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Dinner for two by candlelight on a stone terrace, the bay and a lit village below at dusk

A Week Above the Sea

€3,150for two
Seven nights in a Terrace Suite, for guests who want to stop counting days.
  • Seven nights with breakfast
  • Two dinners served on your terrace
  • A private boat day for two
  • Cooking class with Chef Matteo
  • Airport transfers both ways
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How a stay begins

  1. Write with your dates

    Tell us when, who, and the room you have in mind.

  2. A person replies

    Someone from front of house writes back and holds the room for 48 hours.

  3. Confirm by secure link

    We send a secure payment link to confirm the booking.

  4. Arrive from 15:00

    The pool and terrace are yours all day, on arrival and on departure.

Questions

Before you arrive.

Anything else — stay@casaaurelia.com or +39 0185 402 118.
Rooms are ready from 15:00 and we ask for them back by 11:00. Your luggage can stay with us, and the pool and terrace are yours for the whole day of arrival and departure.
Reservations

Enquire about dates.

Share your dates, the room you have in mind and anything we should prepare. We hold the room for 48 hours while you decide.
Write
stay@casaaurelia.com
Call
+39 0185 402 118every day 8:00–22:00, April to November
Find us
Via delle Ginestre 14, Vallescura

The hotel's terraces lit by lanterns on the cliff at night, boats on the dark sea below
April, May and October

The whole house, for your people.

In the quiet weeks the twenty-four rooms, the terrace and the cistern garden can be yours alone — for a wedding, a family birthday or a week of work and long lunches.
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Casa Aurelia
Vallescura
April – November