About Casa Janna

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Casa Janna is a boutique guesthouse and home restaurant in San Ginesio, in the Macerata province of Le Marche, Italy.


It hosts a limited number of guests around staying, seasonal cooking, creative wellbeing and daily life shaped by the rhythms of the countryside.

Casa Janna did not begin as a hospitality project. It began as a way of living that slowly took physical shape in this house and landscape.

We cook from scratch. We use our hands. We follow what grows in the garden and what the season offers. Nothing here is performed or displayed—it simply happens because this is how we live.

Food shapes the rhythm of the house. So does time. So does the land around us.

Casa Janna hosts a limited number of guests by choice. This allows hosting to remain personal, shared spaces to stay quiet, and attention to remain whole.

This isn't a concept. It's our home, opened carefully to people who want to live inside that rhythm for a while.

La Casa

Casa Janna hosts a limited number of guests around staying, food, and shared daily life.

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About Janna

Janna isn't a person. It's an acorn.

In Marchigiano dialect, janna means acorn—small, humble, contained. But inside that small form is the entire blueprint of an oak. Not the promise of one. The potential for one, given time, soil, and the right conditions.

The psychologist James Hillman wrote about this in The Soul's Code. He believed we're all born with an acorn—a unique essence, a calling embedded in us from the beginning. Not something we need to discover or invent. Something we need to allow.

Most of us spend our lives being shaped by external forces—expectations, productivity, speed, noise. The acorn gets buried. We forget it's there.

Hillman argued that the acorn doesn't need fixing or improving. It needs conditions. It needs time. It needs us to stop interfering and start nurturing.

That's what Casa Janna is.

A place that gives you the conditions to remember what you already are.

About us

A woman with curly hair tied in a bun, wearing an oversized patterned sweater, is kneeling on a bed, painting an intricate design with a brush on a large canvas or paper spread out on the bed. The background features a wooden wall and framed artwork.

For twenty years, Francesca lived the life everyone told her was successful. Corporate executive. Fast-paced cities. A calendar that never stopped. From the outside, it worked.
From the inside, it had been breaking for a long time.

She knew for three years that something had to change. But knowing and doing are different things. Then one afternoon, sitting at her desk, she heard it clearly: You're wasting your time.

Two weeks later, she resigned. It was 2019. She had no plan. No clarity. Just a need to stop performing a life that no longer fit.

She started traveling. She worked with art and neuroaesthetics—studying how the brain responds to beauty, how creativity affects the nervous system, how making things with your hands can rebuild what stress has dismantled. She trained in sound healing. She sat at her first Vipassana retreat. She started working with clay. She learned what it meant to live at a rhythm that wasn't dictated by productivity.

Our Story

Our journey has been anything but ordinary. Through every step, we've focused on staying true to our values and making space for thoughtful, lasting work.

A person wearing a blue shirt and gloves working in a garden with green plants, fenced with wire, on a sunny day with a blue sky and clouds, surrounded by rolling green hills.

Giorgio's story was different, but it led to the same place.

He spent years in restaurants —Michelin-starred, high-pressure, relentless. He co-founded House of Negroni. He opened restaurants. He built cocktail programs. He knew how to create experiences that people remembered.

But he also knew what that world cost.

They were both looking for the same thing: a way to live that didn't require performing. A way to work that came from intention.

Our Story

In 2023, we started Casa Janna. It wasn’t a business concept, but the shape our life had already taken.

Francesca runs the kitchen. She bakes bread with ancient grains and long fermentation. She cooks what grows in the garden.
She works with guests through sound, meditation, and creative practice when requested, as part of the lived rhythm of the house rather than as scheduled services.
She makes ceramics. She hosts the way she's learned to live: small, slow, present.

Giorgio transformed the abandoned land around the house into a garden. He works the soil using regenerative farming techniques. He brings professional cocktail and beverage knowledge into a domestic setting, adapting it to the pace and intimacy of the table.

Casa Janna took shape as their life took shape.
What already existed was given structure, space, and continuity.
Opening the door came later.

A white round table holding three glasses with dark red drinks, a small bowl of nuts, and a straw hat. In the background, a sunlit outdoor lounge chair has a folded towel, a magazine, and sunglasses resting on it.

  • Casa Janna is a small boutique guesthouse and home restaurant in the Italian countryside of Le Marche, near San Ginesio, in the province of Macerata. Casa Janna is intentionally small, secluded, and quietly run. With a limited number of guests, independent units, and no outside foot traffic, it suits people who value peace and a low-profile stay.
    Guests are personally hosted by us, with an attentive approach that respects privacy while remaining present when needed.

  • No. We are not a hotel, spa, or wellness resort. Casa Janna is a lived-in house shaped around hospitality, food, art, creativity, healing, and intentional time.

  • Yes. Sound healing, guided meditation, mindfulness sessions, and art-as-care experiences are available by appointment. These are personal, grounded practices

  • Overnight capacity is up to 8 guests, plus 2 additional on request, across three independent units.
    For retreats, we can host larger groups. Contact us to discuss details.

  • Yes, in practical ways. The property is powered by solar panels. The land and gardens are pesticide-free, and our orto is managed using regenerative agriculture principles applied by Giorgio. We focus on materials, food, and practices that work with the land.

  • No. We chose not to include TVs in the rooms. Casa Janna is designed around presence, conversation, reading, cooking, and time outdoors. Instead, guests have access to a large library of over 1,000 books, mostly in English and Italian. WI-FI is available.

  • Breakfast is included and cooked from scratch using organic, seasonal ingredients.
    Private dinners, cooking sessions, wild bread, pasta-making, and aperitivo experiences are available on request.

  • The cocktail aperitivo is one of Casa Janna’s signature experiences. It is personally run by Giorgio, co-founder of House of Negroni, a leading contemporary brand rooted in Italian aperitivo culture.

  • Yes, by advance booking and subject to availability.
    All wellness activities at Casa Janna are intentionally limited to very small numbers.

  • The pool is shared only among Casa Janna guests. It is calm and never crowded.