Castello di San Pietro hosts weddings, banquets, gala dinners, conferences, meetings, team building and company presentations in a 15th-century castle at San Pietro in Cerro, in the Bassa Piacentina plain of Emilia-Romagna, with twelve rooms in a guesthouse in its park. The castle publishes no capacities, so the number of guests is agreed with the owners for each event.
Seminars and company events
The castle accepts conferences, meetings, presentations, team building and corporate events, as well as concerts, art exhibitions and photo shoots. Every event is built to order, with a set of personalized services around it. The collections give a program on site: a guided tour of the castle takes about one hour and 15 minutes and crosses the armory, the terracotta warriors and the contemporary art museum, which can open a working day or close it.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings use the rooms of the castle and the green spaces that surround it. Receptions, banquets and gala dinners are organized privately, and the couple and their families can stay in the Locanda del Re Guerriero, the guesthouse set in the park.
Rooms and capacities
On the piano nobile, two state rooms have wooden beamed ceilings, carved and painted. The historic library on the same floor holds more than 2,000 antique volumes on the history of Piacenza. The ground floor houses the Sala delle Armi, an armory museum of more than 600 pieces, and the basement displays forty statues of the terracotta warriors of Xi'an. The attic, the old patrol walk between the two towers and the granary hold the MiM, the Museum in Motion. Outside, a large tree-lined park keeps its original paths, with a wide meadow on one side. The site gives no capacity for any of these spaces.
Accommodation
The Locanda del Re Guerriero has twelve rooms, including suites and junior suites. The building once housed the stables and the lodgings of farmhands and coachmen. Its hall and rooms combine design furniture with works from the MiM collection. Breakfast is served every morning, in the park when the weather allows, with homemade pastries, fresh fruit, Italian cold cuts and eggs.
Catering
The site does not describe a restaurant or an in-house caterer for events. The catering arrangement should be discussed with the castle when sending a request.
History and setting
Bartolomeo Barattieri, a jurist and ambassador of Piacenza to the court of Pope Julius II, founded the castle in 1460, and its construction lasted more than thirty years. The Spaggiari family owns it today. The MiM was named by the art critic Pierre Restany and holds more than 1,600 contemporary works shown in rotation. The castle opens to the public on Sundays and holidays from March to November, which is worth knowing when choosing an event date.
Getting there
The Locanda is at Via Melchiorre Gioia 5, 29010 San Pietro in Cerro, in the province of Piacenza. Piacenza and Cremona are the nearest cities, and the castle lies in the flat farmland south of the Po.
