Villa Piazzo hosts conferences, meetings, team-building days, weddings and ceremonies, with an auditorium for 100 seated guests and a park for outdoor receptions. The 19th-century villa sits on a hill at 750 m in Pettinengo, about 10 km from Biella in Piedmont, with lodging for 15 guests on site.
Seminars and company events
The auditorium on the second floor is the main room for business events: conferences, presentations, training days and work meetings for up to 100 people. It comes with video projection, sound amplification and an internet connection.
The park is used for team-building days and for business lunches and dinners outdoors. Groups staying two days or more can sleep on site in the guest house, which makes a residential seminar possible without transfers.
The villa also hosts presentations, photo and video shoots, concerts and exhibitions, indoors and in the park. Recent dates on the official calendar include a conference on urban trees and three days of European arborist certification tests.
Weddings and receptions
The villa and the park are offered for ceremonies, and civil weddings can be celebrated in the villa or outdoors in the park. Setup, flowers, photography, entertainment and music are arranged with wedding professionals. For the wedding party, the foresteria offers up to 15 beds in five rooms.
Rooms and capacities
The Auditorium seats 100 and is equipped for projection and sound. The park serves receptions, aperitifs and outdoor ceremonies, with a 360-degree view over the Po Valley and the Alps. The Fritz Club, a members' lounge bar run by the association that manages the villa, completes the site; joining as an "Amico Fritz" is open to everyone.
Accommodation
L'Elefante Fritz, a boutique lodge in the park, offers up to 15 beds in five rooms. For larger groups, three partner bed and breakfasts in the village add more than 30 beds, under agreements arranged by the villa.
Catering
A café operates in the villa. The site mentions business lunches and dinners in the park but does not describe a set catering offer, so the menu is agreed for each event.
History and setting
The villa was built from the mid-1800s on the hill known as the Balcone del Biellese. It belonged for a long time to the Bellia family, prominent in the local wool industry, then in the 1950s to the Pavia family, founders of the Liabel brand. In the 1980s the Pavia family gave it to the Comune di Pettinengo as a place for meetings and events devoted to peace, the future and conviviality. Today it is run by the Associazione Pacefuturo, which also keeps a vegetable garden in the park, the Orto del Terzo Paradiso.
Getting there
Villa Piazzo is at Via G.B. Maggia 2, in Pettinengo, about 10 km from Biella. The nearest railway station is Biella.
