44°08′ N, 9°39′ EMonterosso, LiguriaApril to November
Seventeen rooms,ninety stepsabove the sea.
A family house on the terraces between Monterosso and Punta Mesco. Long lunches, cold water, and nothing that needs doing.
Enter the house
The Garden Suite, seven in the evening
The shutters stay open until the last of the light has gone.
Your stay
Seventeen rooms, seasonal rates
The house
A family house that never quite stopped being one.
Built in 1961 as a summer place for a Genoese family, Casa Lume kept its proportions when it became a hotel: small rooms, thick walls, and a kitchen that still works to whatever the boats brought in.
- Rooms
- Seventeen, no two alike
- Season
- April to early November
- The sea
- Ninety steps down
- Nearest village
- Monterosso, 12 min
Upstairs
Doors left ajar, and floors that stay cool all summer.
Every room was a bedroom in a family house before it was a room in a hotel. We changed the plumbing and very little else.
See the rooms
The kitchen
One menu, written each afternoon.
What the boats brought in, what the garden had, and what Sale felt like cooking. Bread from the wood oven, lemons from the terrace.
Dinner and the bar
The upper terrace
Days arranged, or left entirely alone.
Two chairs under the vines and the whole gulf in front of them. If you want a boat at eight or a table on the point at sunset, we will have it ready.
ExperiencesRooms & suites
Seventeen rooms, no two alike.
Some open onto the lemon garden, some face the water, one has the whole roof to itself. All of them are quiet.
The water
Ninety steps down, and worth every one of them.
A concrete platform on the rocks, a ladder into deep water, and nobody else. Towels go down at eight.
The restaurant
Sale — one menu, written each afternoon.
Twenty-six covers on the lower terrace. One menu each evening, written in the afternoon once the boats are in and the garden has been walked.
- Breakfast
- 7:30 – 10:30
- Lunch
- 12:30 – 15:00
- Dinner
- 19:30 – 22:00
Experiences
Days arranged, or left entirely alone.
Nothing here is compulsory. But if you want a boat at eight or a table on the point at sunset, we will have it ready.
The setting
Above a cove the road does not reach.
Casa Lume sits on the terraces between Monterosso and Punta Mesco, twelve minutes from the village and a long way from everything else.
Nearby
Monterosso al Mare
12 minutes by car, or 40 on the coast path
Vernazza
20 minutes by car
Portovenere
45 minutes by car, 25 by boat
Punta Mesco headland
A 3 hour walk from the gate
Getting here
Genoa Cristoforo Colombo
GOA · 1 hr 40 by car
Pisa Galileo Galilei
PSA · 1 hr 50 by car
Milan Malpensa
MXP · 3 hr 10 by car
Monterosso station
15 minutes · we collect you
Guests
What people say when they get home.
“We came for four nights and changed our flights twice. By the third morning the kitchen knew how we took our coffee and had stopped asking.”
Marguerite Ellery
London
“I have stayed in larger hotels on this coast and remembered none of them. This one I could draw from memory — the stair, the smell of the cellar, the light at six.”
Tomas Lindqvist
Stockholm
“It is not a hotel that performs for you. Nothing is announced. Things simply appear at the moment you were about to want them.”
Anaïs Reverdy
Lyon
Casa Lume
Stay a little
longer.
Most guests book three nights and wish they had booked six. The calendar opens twelve months ahead.
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