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Il Piccolo Nido is in the village of Sant'Eustachio (Montignoso Municipality, Massa-Carrara Province, Northern Tuscany). S. Eustachio is on the slopes of the Apuan Alps, approx. 300 m above sea level. Il Piccolo Nido is in the southern most part of S. Eustachio and it is the last house of the village.  It has nothing in front of it but the view of the sea and the coastline, the hills below and sunshine. When in S. Eustachio, park your car on the side of the road and take via Grotta. After 100m you will get to the house that being far from the main road is quiet and silent. The house has a total of four rooms, three on the ground floor and one, the sleeping room, on the first floor. It is about 55 m 2 in size. The entrance is in the living room, a sunny room with the fireplace and the sleeping sofa (dimensions of the bed: 140x200cm). Available to guests are the sat TV/radio, the dvd reader, the stereo, a collection of books (mainly Italian books) and of cds. From the living room you can get to the kitchen or if you take the stairs you go up to the sleeping room. The kitchen is well organized and equipped. The sleeping room is upstairs with a king bed (180x200 cm) and an open wardrobe. The roof with the chestnut beams and boards is on view. From the kitchen you get in a small corridor where the toilets overlooks and which takes you to the garden door. In the garden available to our guests are the washing machine, a table with chairs and an umbrella but most of all the view on the coast and the valley. The house is one of the oldest of Sant'Eustachio and it is listed in the Catasto Borbonico (land registry) of early 1800s. Before 1950s the house was a three floor house, one room per floor (this structure is locally called "terratetto", litterally "roof-ground"). Terratetto was the typical house structure of the area. It was made with the local stone called Cardoso. After the 1960s, the third floor was destroyed and the new part of the house (where the kitchen and the toilet are now) was built.