What is CaRina

CaRina is a regeneration project born from the idea that a house too large to stay empty can come alive again, becoming an open, simple, welcoming place. It is not a bed & breakfast, not a farm stay, and not cohousing in the classic sense: it is an experiment in light, human hospitality, designed for people who travel, work remotely, seek silence and nature, or simply want to pause for a few days outside the conventional logic of tourism.

The house is renovated gradually, in stages, with essential work and materials that are as local, natural, and durable as possible. Furnishings are often reclaimed, chosen with care and adapted thoughtfully, because reuse and simplicity are integral to the vision. There is no wish to expand, build to excess, or transform the surroundings: everything stays at a human scale, with the goal of welcoming well, without taking over.

The heart of the project is an ethical choice. CaRina is founded on the intention to reduce environmental impact, promote non-predatory hospitality, and foster a deep sense of community. People who arrive enter a concrete exchange: time, skills, presence — in return for a place to stay, cook, work, and breathe outside tourist logics.

The purpose is twofold: on one hand, to restore to the house a concrete, sustainable function that keeps it alive over time; on the other, to offer a real, accessible space for travellers, workers, informal groups, associations, and collectives looking for a quiet place to stay, plan, read, cook together, or simply breathe. In this sense, CaRina also wants to be a replicable model — an example of sober, respectful hospitality able to exist outside the logics of profit and consumption.

So, beyond spaces designed for hospitality, we are imagining places to make things: a ceramics workshop, a carpentry shop, a bike workshop open to passers-by, a shared laundry overlooking the garden. Then, step by step, the more ambitious direction: to make CaRina autonomous — from energy, from water, from the grid. It is not an ideological plan. It is the most logical consequence of what CaRina will be.