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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Casa Maria Luigia

Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore’s eighteenth-century country house outside Modena, where the art collection, the record player and the Francescana kitchen all live in the family’s own key.

The chef’s house, opened up
Modena · Emilia-Romagna, Italy 44° 36.11′ N  /  10° 56.56′ E
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with Casa Maria Luigia
The House

A house that collects what the family loves: art, music, and dinner.

Casa Maria Luigia is what happens when the couple behind Osteria Francescana turn a country villa into a guest house: contemporary art hung two-deep, vinyl by the armful, gardens running to acacia woods, and the sense of staying with friends who happen to have a world-class kitchen.

Breakfast is an event, dinner at Francescana at Maria Luigia is the pilgrimage, and Modena, balsamic lofts, Parmesan dairies, engines and opera, waits fifteen minutes up the road.

Overview Modena · Emilia-Romagna
Setting
An eighteenth-century villa in the Emilian countryside
Accommodation
Rooms and suites in the house and outbuildings
Your rooms
Rooms taken together for your party, or the house exclusively
Getting there
About 40 minutes from Bologna airport
The stay
Stay 3 nights or more, and we plan your whole experience
Satopia experience
Tailor-made for you: dairies, engines and tables, arranged end to end
The house & its art · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 to 20 guests
2
Nights Minimum 3 nights stay
3
WhatsApp Email Satopia reservations
The House

Everything in the house is personal, the art, the records, the menu, and you are simply let in.

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01 Accommodation

Rooms hung like a private collection, because they are one.

Each room carries the owners’ own art and objects, bold, personal, occasionally mischievous, over calm Emilian bones: beams, pale plaster, garden light. Suites in the outbuildings add space and privacy.

Held together, the house takes a party of friends the way it was designed to; taken entirely, it becomes the family’s hospitality at full stretch.

Rooms
On confirmation
Sleeps
On confirmation
Outside
Gardens, pool & courts
Use
Your rooms, or the house
A collected room · 4:5
02 Culinary

Francescana at Maria Luigia, and breakfasts worth the trip alone.

The estate’s dining room serves a tasting menu from the Osteria Francescana team, the three-star repertoire’s greatest hits, in the house’s own relaxed register. The carriage-house breakfast, Emilian pastries, parmigiano, the good coffee, has its own following.

Beyond the gates, your designer books the dairies, the acetaie and the region’s stubbornly unbookable osterias.

The table
Francescana at Maria Luigia
The morning
The carriage-house breakfast
The Francescana table · 4:5
03 Experiences

Emilia’s holy trinity: parmesan, balsamic, engines.

Mornings go to the sources: a dairy at wheel-cracking hour, a family acetaia under the roof tiles, prosciutto cellars in the hills. Afternoons can turn to horsepower, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani all keep their museums within half an hour.

Modena itself does evenings well: the duomo, the market, Pavarotti’s opera house, and aperitivo in the porticoes.

The tastings
Dairies · acetaie · cellars
The engines
Ferrari · Lamborghini · Pagani
The sources · 4:5
04 Wellness

A pool in the gardens, and music instead of a spa menu.

Wellness here is analogue: lengths in the garden pool, tennis under the trees, a massage arranged in your room, and the acacia woods for a morning run.

The house’s real therapy is its music room, hi-fi, vinyl walls, deep chairs, prescribed nightly after dinner.

Outside
Pool, tennis & the woods
Inside
The music room
Analogue wellness · 4:5
05 Service

A family’s hospitality, and one designer over the whole stay.

The team run the house as the owners intend, generous, informal, exact where it counts, and guests are treated as the family’s own: help yourself to the records, the garden, the honesty bar.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds the rooms and the tables and stays one call away throughout.

At the house
The family’s team
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Quiet hospitality · 4:5
06 Setting

Emilia: Italy’s pantry, at its own unhurried pace.

The land between Modena, Parma and Bologna feeds the world’s idea of Italy, and does it from small farms, family lofts and dairies that still answer the phone themselves.

The house sits in the quiet middle of that map: fields, poplars and food you will measure everything against afterwards.

Around you
Fields & acacia woods
Fifteen minutes
Modena
The Emilian flat · 4:5
Moments

The house, in motion.

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Image slot Breakfast spreading through the carriage house.
Image slot A record going on before dinner.
Image slot The pool between the trees at noon.
Image slot Parmesan cracked open at the dairy.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.

When to go
Best · April – June & September – October · soft light and the harvests; midsummer runs hot on the plain
6°
Jan
9°
Feb
14°
Mar
18°
Apr
23°
May
28°
Jun
31°
Jul
30°
Aug
26°
Sep
19°
Oct
12°
Nov
7°
Dec
Rainfall Driest July · wettest October
Harvest seasons · ideal High summer · hot on the plain Rainfall trend
For the table

The pilgrimage, solved.

Francescana’s cooking without the reservation war, and breakfast people cross borders for.

For two

Art, vinyl, garden.

A collected room, records after dinner and Modena’s porticoes. Quietly one of Italy’s most romantic stays.

For a gathering

The house as host.

Rooms taken together for friends who eat: the tasting menu one night, a courtyard feast the next.

For the engines

The motor valley.

Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani mornings, driven or driven past, with lunch at a dairy after.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Casa Maria Luigia, so we can hold your rooms together on your dates, with the Francescana table attached. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.

What we secure

The right rooms, and the dinner reservations that matter, matched to your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.

What we arrange

Every day composed by one travel designer: the dairies and acetaie, the museums and the cars, present when wanted, unseen when not.

People we bring to you, on request
Food guides & tastings
Drivers, door to door
Motor-valley days
Massage, in room
Childminders
Photographers
Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Confirm opening days before you plan around it

Casa Maria Luigia does not always run on a typical seven-day schedule, so check current opening days before building the rest of your Emilia Romagna trip around it. Arrive with time to enjoy the grounds and pools before dinner rather than rushing straight in. Guests frequently mention how well the property pairs a relaxing rural stay with a culinary connection to Osteria Francescana.

Come for the tasting menu, not a quick dinner

Treat dinner as the centrepiece of your stay rather than a routine meal, since the tasting menu is closer to a guided showcase of the chef’s signature dishes than standard restaurant fare. Go in with an open mind about pacing and presentation. Pair it with breakfast, which is its own leisurely multi-course event worth lingering over in the garden.

Extend your stay

Want to stay a little longer?
We'll plan that too.

Emilia sits on Italy’s main line, so the house pairs easily. A few we would join to it, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotBologna & Parma · 9:16
The region

Bologna & Parma

The porticoed cities either side: markets, mortadella, Correggio’s domes and the best food streets in Italy.

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Image slotFlorence · 9:16
South

Florence, an hour south

The Renaissance city by high-speed rail: galleries in the morning, back for dinner, or stay on.

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Image slotMilan · 9:16
The way home

A Milan bookend

Shops, La Scala and the galleria on the flight path home, an hour up the line.

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Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal season · April to June, September to October

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Breakfast
  • Snacks and mini bar drinks included in room rate
Arranged separately
  • Osteria Francescana dining experience
  • Private transfers

Casa Maria Luigia is priced by the room, by night, with dinner reserved separately. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.

Private & tailor-made · the chef’s house, held for you Enquire
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