Bagni di Pisa takes seminars and board meetings of up to 80 people, team-building programs and civil weddings in an 18th-century thermal palace at San Giuliano Terme, just outside Pisa. The hotel has 61 rooms and suites, five meeting spaces, an in-house restaurant and a large thermal spa, which suits residential meetings that mix work sessions and rest.
Seminars and company events
The largest room, the Teatrino dei Granduchi, holds up to 80 participants. It has daylight and a secretariat area, and it can be made acoustically independent from the other rooms. Sala Shelley seats 70 theatre style, with a top table for six and a bar. Sala Byron takes 15 and opens onto a small terrace. The Sala gioco is set as an imperial table for eight, which works for a board meeting. A pavilion with glass walls looks onto the outdoor thermal pool and the historic facade. The hotel states that all rooms have up-to-date equipment.
The events team proposes team-building formats: a guided tasting of Tuscan wines with the sommeliers, a cooking class with the chefs, a hot-air balloon flight over the Lucca countryside with up to 12 people per balloon, a visit to olive groves on Monte Pisano with cold pressing and tasting, a day of sailing on the Tuscan coast and a Vespa tour of Pisa. The hotel also hosts anniversaries and private parties.
Weddings and receptions
Civil ceremonies take place indoors in Sala Shelley or outdoors in the Corte Byron courtyard. The usual sequence is an aperitif in Sala Shelley, then lunch or dinner at the Ristorante dei Lorena, with a menu designed by chef Umberto Toscano and wines chosen with the sommeliers. In warm weather, meals can move to an outdoor courtyard. The hotel coordinates makeup, hair, bridal gown, flowers, photography and music, and offers the couple a frescoed junior suite for the wedding night. The wedding pages give no maximum guest number.
Rooms and capacities
Teatrino dei Granduchi up to 80, Sala Shelley 70 theatre style, Sala Byron 15, Sala gioco 8 at one table, plus the Thermal Pool Pavilion. The hotel does not publish room sizes in square meters.
Accommodation
The palace has 61 rooms, of which 11 are junior suites and 9 are suites. The suites keep their 18th-century vaulted ceilings with pastel frescoes, some with parquet mezzanines, and floors in marble, terrazzo or Tuscan terracotta. Some windows look toward the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Catering
Catering is in-house. Menus by chef Umberto Toscano focus on Tuscan cooking and are served at the Ristorante dei Lorena, while the Kaffehaus suits lighter breaks. The spa also runs its own nutrition program, Equilibrium, which can shape lighter menus for a wellness-focused group.
History and setting
The Etruscans and the Romans already used these springs. In 1743 the Grand Duke of Tuscany chose the palace as his summer thermal residence. A restoration recovered the frescoed vaults, parquet mezzanines, marble floors and Carrara marble bathrooms. Today the spa includes two indoor thermal pools, Bagni di Levante and Bagni di Ponente, an outdoor thermal pool and La Grotta, a thermal grotto reached through a tunnel dug in the 1700s. The hotel belongs to the Italian Hospitality Collection, together with Fonteverde and Grotta Giusti.
Getting there
The address is Largo Shelley 18, San Giuliano Terme, in the province of Pisa. The palace sits just outside Pisa, between Lucca and the Versilia coast, so Pisa airport and Pisa Centrale station are a short drive away.
