Anna and Rupert Kreuzpaintner, Landshut (Germany), 2009.
We wanted to go by bicycle in province of Pavia, but not starting from that busy town everyday. We immediately felt sympathy for Ca’ Vecchia, when we had found its website. We were right to chose it for our week of holidays.
May our tours not always have been as relaxing as we had planned them – not those into the Oltrepo Hills, but those crossing the river Po – Tina’s dinner has always been the highlight of the day.
We learned a lot about the region and about cooking on a high level. We felt like being part of the family and coming back from our bicycle tours in the evening was like coming home.
We had wonderful time at Rea, we will recommend Ca’ Vecchia to everyone we know – and we will come back definitely.

Kjell-Ivar and Jens Edvard from Norway, 2006.
La ca’ vecchia is a very nice and charming old farm in the outer circle of the small village of Rea. Not the easiest to find, but really worth looking for and finally finding. The hospitality and personal service as well as the quality of the rooms, are on the same level as Tina’s cooking and kindness. Just fantastic and excellent! Home made Italian food, made with love and local ingredients together with local wines, in this atmosphere, make you very close to heaven. This little village close to the river Po, is a quiet place with cool and nice citizens, out on the country side. It’s also a perfect distance to cities, other villages, wine district, old castles and much more interesting to experience in this old province of Pavia. You can spend your whole life travelling around in only this province of Italy, with its fantastic old and important history, without manage to see it all. The city of Pavia and La Ca’ Vecchia in Rea are then perfect for a start of the Italian journey of your life.

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