Hostels for the young of all ages
Four Italian destinations and a straightforward way of welcoming people. This site does not sell rooms: it helps you work out where to go.
Where to go
Here you find the character of each place. Rooms, rates and booking are on the hostel's own site: that is where you actually get organised.
Sea · Nature · Archaeology
The gulf of Baratti, the village of Populonia and the San Silvestro mining park are all within half an hour. You sleep up in the hills and go down to the sea. The restaurant serves guests every evening: up here, going out for dinner means taking the car, and almost nobody does.
Bicycle · City walls · Renaissance
Nine kilometres of city walls you can cycle without meeting a single traffic light. Ferrara is the Italian city where a car is least useful. The hostel is inside the Renaissance quarter, walking distance from the Este Castle and Palazzo dei Diamanti.
Music · University · Food
A university city you cross on foot, with an opera season that fills the Teatro Regio and a food tradition that needs no introduction. Fifteen minutes from the station to the centre: convenient if you arrive by train.
Squares · Art · Meeting people
The hostel occupies the first floor of the Chiostro della Ghiara, a seventeenth-century cloister. Downstairs there is a restaurant open to the city and a courtyard that hosts concerts in summer. It is the largest of the four, and in May Reggio fills up with photography exhibitions.
How we welcome people
Rooms and services matter. But what makes the difference is organisation, knowing the area, and paying attention to the people who arrive.
Clear information, no surprises on the price, and direct booking on the hostel's own site.
Capacity, meals, rooms for group leaders, dietary requirements and coach parking: sorted beforehand, not on arrival.
Student's Hostel is the trading name of Società Cooperativa Ballarò, a workers' cooperative that has run affordable, locally rooted hospitality since 2005.
