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Journeying around Monti
Pisani like 200 years ago
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Journeying on to Florence
through the Tuscan countryside around Monti
Pisani:
Lucca, Pisa and other delightful
towns dot the road to Pisa where who are guested of
the Agostini family Villa di Corliano. The family -
and 2 resident ghosts - still welcome guest at the
Villa, much as it they were at the height of its
fame in the 1770’s. The stay at Bagni di Pisa
(health giving waters are still offered to an
international clientele) and visit Pisa during one
of the city’s festivals, staying at the Agostini
Pisa Palace to enjoy the best view of the
festivities
http://www.provincia.pisa.it/pisalive/it/Pisalive/pisalive.html
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San
Ranieri festivities - Pisa Lungarno
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The Villa has hosted many
illustrious guests such as Gustavus III of Sweden,
Federico IV of Norway, Christian II of Denmark, the
Royal Family of Great Britain, Benedict Stuart
Cardinal of York, General Murat, Luigi Buonaparte,
Paolina Borghese, Carlo Alberto of Savoy, the poets
Byron and Shelley, and various other personages from
the history books.
The area of the Pisa hills was
already an attraction for enlightened travellers in
the first half of the 1700s with the growth of the
thermal spa of San Giuliano (Bagni di Pisa),
which became a fashionable spot for the well-off
classes. The mansions on the road along the hills,
already renowned as places of gentle idleness and
relaxation in the heart of the countryside and also
for their small industrial facilities for the
transformation of agricultural products, soon
assumed the characteristics of true leisure resorts,
just like those narrated by Carlo Goldoni and which
we can continue to enjoy today
http://www.bagnidipisa.com/
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Shelley's house in San Giuliano Terme
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The
Villa Agostini della
Seta di Corliano
http://www.villacorliano.it/
is on the road which runs along the foot of the
hills from Pisa to Lucca, passing through the small
town of San Giuliano Terme.
The Villa is a historical
fifteenth century mansion surrounded by a centuries
old park. It is a property of great charm in which
the owners offer, in 12 rooms and 2 suites, a
relaxing stay immersed in the beauties of the local
countryside. Guests, if they like, can join in the
day to day activities of the villa.
They can have relaxing strolls
in the park, potter around in the gardens, chat or
have dinner with the owners in the farmhouse of the
villa – today a high class restaurant
http://www.ladycarlotta.it/
They can also organize all the necessary details for
your meetings, events, weddings in the 1700’s small
pivate church or in the small Pisa Palace 1400’s sky
garden or in the 35.000 smt park of Villa della Seta
di Corliano.
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Villa
of Corliano – San Giuliano Terme
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Conventions can be hosted in a historic Italian
cinema
http://www.lumierecinema.it/ (founded on
1905) and restructured with modern audio visual
technologies on 2004 near the Vecchio Dado Resturant
http://www.vecchiodado.com/
(founded on 1746) and the Royal Victoria Hotel
http://www.royalvictoria.it/default-it.htm
(founded on 1839).
We also
suggest a very good italian ice cream in the old
“diacciaia” of the Caffè dell’Ussero,
(founded on 1775) now located to De Coltelli
gelateria
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Caffè of the Ussero – San Giuliano Terme
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It
is a monument to Italian culture in the 1400's
Palazzo Agostini, on Lungarno. Its walls are covered
with glorious memories from its most famous visitors
of the Italian Risorgimento: Carlo Goldoni, Giacomo
Casanova, Count Alfieri, Filippo Mazzei, Gioacchino
Belli, Giuseppe Mazzini, John Ruskin, Domenico
Guerrazzi, Giuseppe Giusti - who made it famous in
his "Memories about Pisa" in 1841 - Renato Fucini,
Giosuè Carducci, Cesare Abba, Giuseppe Montanelli.
In 1839, it was seat of the meetings of the first
Italian Congress of Scientists.
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By Algido Tricolonio shepherd of the
Colonia Alfea of the Pisan Mountains
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