Two sisters and a splendid Estate dating back to the seven hundreds, the heart of their family home in Sestri Levante, had the idea to share their world for unforgettable moments.
And so L'Esedra di Santo Stefano was created. It takes its name from a rare architectural form that dominates the complex at the monumental stairway that leads up to the villa.
From 1993 L'Esedra di Santo Stefano, run by Orietta and Raffaella, Wedding Planners by vocation, have been organising exclusive ceremonies, events, functions and receptions at Villa Durazzo and its surroundings and in other locations too.
The unique atmosphere that you can feel is to be received by Orietta and Raffaella. They welcome their guests with pleasure and with great attention, like to be in a real house.
SINCE 1993 THE FIRST WEDDING PLANNER IN GENOVA AND IN LIGURIA
Many years ago, Orietta and Raffaella Rimassa created L'Esedra di Santo Stefano in order to organise events and functions held in the splendid surroundings of Villa Durazzo in Sestri Levante, their historical family estate.
From that time, the Estate has become the evocative location and setting for romantic wedding ceremonies and feasts. Wedding Planners by vocation, Orietta and Raffaella Rimassa were the first to develop this type of activity in Genova, proposing original ideas from their experience that always originate from the desires of the bride-to-be. Precious advice, impeccable ceremonies and little secrets to make your wedding day unforgettable.
Choose L’Esedra di Santo Stefano and enter in a special world.
Welcome to Villa Durazzo.
Where the past intermingles with nature to create the right atmosphere for a unique location that plays host to weddings, ceremonies and business functions.
The many shades of intense green in the spacious centuries old park. The scents of the Mediterranean gardens all around and the warm and radiant light that comes from the sea.
Not far from the 'Five Lands', the Cinque Terre, a paradise in the heart of the Ligurian Riviera, where the sea leaves space for the olive trees, the dry walls, the lanes scented with thyme, rosemary and marjoram and so many other essences. Villa Durazzo is in the heart of the estate and in its garden you can admire all the variety that surrounds it.
Hazelnuts, oaks, acorns, camphor, woods that alternate between tree-lined avenues, meadows, a wonderful citrus orchard and many different varieties of fruit trees. The baroque joy of spring, the quiet radiance of summer, the foliage in the warm colours of autumn, the mild temperature of winter.
At Villa Durazzo time has stopped to allow you to dream.
