Married in Tuscany

The city of Pisa, famous all over the world for the leaning bell-tower, amazes its visitors with its historical center that gently shows itself along the bends of the river Arno. Suggestive alleyways, among which you can get lost, the lights of the Lungarno reflected among the waves, the palaces full of art and legends and white churches, pure example of the Pisan Romanesque style
All becomes the ideal frame for a romantic walk, for getting to know all the characters that gave their lives and passions to the city:

The story of Kinzica de’Sismondi resound through the alleys of San Martino and Sant’Antonio quarters .
According to the popular tradition, it was long time ago, at the beginning of the XI century, Kinzica saved the city. Her love for Nino kept her awake and that night she was the only one who noticed the attack from the Saracens. She suddenly ran down the streets toward the main bell-tower of the city, whose sound would have woken the people up.

Camilla Del Lante.
The beautiful Camilla was a 15th century Pisan heroin who fought valiantly to free his homeland from the yoke of Florence. She was able to live with passion on behalf of his ideals and had the audacity to challenge the power. Her love convinced the noble French captain D’Entragues to fight for the liberation of the city.
Few steps from the Rosselmini Gualandi palace, the Gambacorti palace rises. It is the Pisa town hall where wedding ceremonies take place in a wonderful hall with frescoes.

Maria Mancini Colonna, an anguished lady who lies in the medieval church of Santo Sepolcro. She was a noble lady from Rome, Mazzarino cardinal’s niece, she spent part of her life at the court of Louis XIV of France who felt in love with her. She unfortunately was forced to marry Onofrio Colonna who betrayed her with a woman of the people. Maria Mancini got indignant, escaped and started wandering around Europe: she ended her life in Pisa where she found peace in 1715.

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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, the writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who wrote Frankenstein, also spent part of their romantic life in Pisa. They lived in the Chiesa Palace, along the river Arno. They often went to San Giuliano Terme, a lovey village next to Pisa, to enjoy the thermal waters which are recommended still nowadays for a day of cuddles and relax.
The palace where they inhabited rises close to the Giardino Scotto: the old Sangallo Fortress that was transformed in a romantic private, now public, garden in the 19th Century. Secret passages, ancient arches, centuries-old trees and colors from plants and flowers create the frame of our path. The park is so evocative that is one of the best places where your wedding could take place in Pisa.
Strolling in Pisa we will meet numerous churches: first of all the gorgeous Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, still used for the Sunday ceremony and for the celebration of the sacraments, it is visited by millions of visitor year by year. When we get lost in the narrow streets of the city we find many other churches such as Santa Maria della Spina:  a gothic jewel box facing the river Arno, along the banks for a dreamy view of the city.
San Piero in Vincoli, San Francesco and San Paolo a Ripa d’Arno but San Zeno for instance is one of the most ancient religious structures from the 11th century that keeps the medieval lines. San Zeno is no more used for religious ceremonies but civic weddings can take palace here where exhibitions and theatre plays alternate.
In Pisa each street has not only a name but a smell, a color, a vibration different one from the other: in the late afternoon students and citizens give life to the squares with concerts, music and fun. The city is crammed with pubs, bar and restaurant of any kind.
Pisa has thousand faces like the reflection on the river’s wakes.
The river’s mouth is, a few kilometers far from the city, in Marina di Pisa. It is a village that rose in the late 19th C. still keeping its romantic, old fashion stile walking in the path along the white marble rocks dip in the sea. This is the perfect place for a relaxing aperitif on the sea, a tasteful fish dinner and a walk lightened by the moon and by the lights of solitary fishermen.
The passion of Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italian early XX century poet and Eleonora Duse, unforgettable actress, was lightened in the pine tree woods between Marina di Pisa and Tirrenia where various d’Annunzio’s poems were written.

Pisa next to the sea but wrapped by the mountains also.
The Monti Pisani protect the city from the cold winds and are the frame that gives life to the Val Graziosa: an area at the foot of the mountain where the lovely village of Calci is. In Calci there are the wonderful Chartreuse and the abandoned Monastery of Nicosia that weave a net between past and present. It will be a pleasant walk in art and nature, surrounded by the silver green leaves of the olive trees along the grassy path.
Easy to reach Pisa by plane from all over the world thank to the International Airport Galileo Galilei: it is only one kilometer far from the city center and from the central train station that connects you to all Tuscany: Firenze, Lucca, Livorno, Viareggio, Volterra, San Gimignano and so on.
All this makes Pisa the ideal place for falling in love and living the most beautiful day of your life.
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We care about the everyday life poetry, we pay attention to tiny details and to the marks left by past events, among alleys and squares through the stories of the inhabitants or the curious look of travelers. Besides providing guided tours, we propose exclusive itineraries and guided tours of Pisa and surroundings in order to discover invisible places. We also suggest tours to taste typical products, and to rediscover traditional activities by connecting history, legend and entertainment.

As everyone knows last week the wedding of the century between William and kate took place in London. Maybe not all of you know that the Royal couple have decided to have their honemoon in Tuscany, having a rest in a wonderful villa on the Lucchese hills near Colle di Compito. It seems that for the moment the honeymoon has been just postponed for a while.
From sure sources, local journalists know that there have been confidential contacts to rent an exclusive estate of 57 hectars on a hill in the Lucca area with 2 villas, 2 swimmingpoolsa nd a fantastic Italian garden. There are also rumors that an exclusive party should be arranged in honour of William and Kate, where several local noble familes, friends of the Windsor family should be invited. The British Royal family has always had ties with Tuscany and Lucca in particular as even the Prince of Wales has visited it several times in the past.
So, why don’t take the opportunity to follow the choice of the Royal couple,getting married in Tuscany and having your honeymoon here? Weddings and Weddings is able to arrange your fairytale wedding ceremony in a villa not just in the Lucca area, where we are specialists, but also in nice cosy small towns as Volterra, San Gimignano, Pietrasanta, Certaldo or Montepulciano.
Renting a villa in the typical Tuscan countryside, arranging a fantastic open air wedding party in the villa garden with music, will be an exclusive experience that will make your event unforgettable!
Don’t miss this opportunity,ask for more information contacting us at: info@weddingsandweddings.com

WEDDING IN TUSCANY
Hello friends, summer is arriving as well as the wedding season in Tuscany. This year Weddings and Weddings has received a lot of requests to arrange fairytale weddings in our region, maybe inspired by the Royal wedding of William and kate, even if clients are not asking for such a luxurious event !
The main interest is to have a special ceremony in a marvellous setting that can make this ceremony unique and unforgettable, and Tuscany has all these elements. As Wedding Planner our aim is to offer the best solution according to the clients requests. This year I have noticed a great interest for the Val d’Orcia area, in the south part of Siena, where you can taste the real tuscan landscape setting! Nice cosy villages as San Quirico d’Orcia, Castiglione d’Orcia, Pienza, Montalcino, Bagno Vignoni are just a few places where my clients will have thier weddings this summer.
It is quite curious that some clients recently told me that they are very grateful to me for having proposed them such nice locations a bit outsite from the main tourist stream of destinations as Florence, Siena and the Chianti area where they initially intented to have their ceremony.
Beside, even for them, all the pre-weddings procedures were simpler than expected and they enjoyed a lot being in touch with nice local services suppliers as catering, flowerist, musicians, villa owners.

GET MARRIED IN A TUSCAN VILLA (PISA)

Today I want to present a fantastic villa between PISA and LUCCA, which can be your ideal setting for your Italian wedding: Villa di CORLIANO

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The Palazzo al Borgo di Corliano is a villa situated in a nice valley close to the spatown of San Giuliano. It is one of the numerous villas built by Pisan merchantsas summer housesalong the fertile west slopes of Mount Pisano. In 1616, the florentine Vincenzo Pitti describes the villa as ‘’the most beautiful Palace around Pisa’. The villa has excelent interiors, decorated with typical Florentine mannerist 16century graffiti and frescos a fantastic garden, part of the 4 hectares park,which counts some secular plants and whichcan be an ideal setting for an open air ceremony. This monumental compelx includes also an aristocratic Chapel, the farm, the oil mill and teh kaffeehaus.

Villa di Corliano is recognized as one of the most prestigious Renaissance villas in Tuscany. Nowadays the villa , in spite of being an historical residence, offers hotel accomodation with  11 double rooms ( 2 of them are suites); it has its own Restaurant ‘Osteria all Ussero’ based in the ground floor of the farmhouse with typical dishes of the Tuscan cousine, and recently it has got the permission to celebrate official ‘civil wedding ceremony’ from the local Town hall of S. Giuliano Terme. Therefore, without leaving the Villa, you and your guests can spend an unforgettable stay, living in a fantastic villa as during the Renaissance times! The vicinity to Pisa airport and to the artistic towns of Lucca and Pisa makes the rest !

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Weddings and Weddings will assist you in arranging your fairytale wedding in this fantasctic villa in the hearth of Tuscany!

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WEDDING IN SAN GIMIGNANO

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Today I want to introduce a  worldwide famous destination for for Wedding in Tuscany: San Gimignano, known as ‘the twn of the towers’. San Gimignanorose as an ancient etruscan settlement and during the XII century became a city-republic. The first walls were born in 998, when thsi town became a business centre along the Via Francigena to Rome. The familes, enriched with the commerce, ordered 72 towers to be built, but as the forbade, each tower could not exceed in height the town hall tower, called Rognosa. Nowadays only 15 of the 72 towers remain, but this cosy town mantains its original medieval fascination with narrow streets, beautiful views and scenaries among  medieval palaces.

Weddings and Weddings can arrange civil wedding in the well known Sala di Dante under the Town hall tower, full of fantasctic frescos or a religious wedding in the beautiful Church of Sant’ Agostino.

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Beside we can offer a fantastic location for your stay , your symbolic or civil ceremony as well as for your wedding party: Tenuta Quadrifoglio. This resort os really a corner of paradise! Justa  few kilometers from S Gimignano town centre, in the moggle of the typical tuscan countryside, where teh rolling hills are spotted with the green of meadows, woods wineyards and olive groves. In the background, beyond the terrace lawn, you can see Volterra, and of course, behind the hill, you get a glimplse of the famous S. Gimignano towers.  Tenuta Quadrifoglio has an internal high quality catering Company whch can arrange delicious  Tuscan food for your stay and something unique for your fairytale wedding party in one of the various dining rooms, connected verandas or terraces.

Tenuta Quadrifoglio can be also an ideal place for a relaxing holidays for you and your guests, with a lot of pathways in the local natural parks and for sightseeings in the historic surroundings of the Valdera region.

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WEDDING IN PIETRASANTA

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Today I want to present a lively location on the Versila coast in Tuscany apt for your wedding in Italy. Pietrasanta is a nice town full of history and works of art, due to the vicinity to the marble caves of carrara and to the fact that this small town is the residence place of many famous marble sculptors who have decided to open their studios here and to live in such a quiet place! You could have the opportunity to get married in the beautiful closter of the de-consacrated Church of Sant Agostino , close to the Duomo square, whcih is an open air museum or to celebrate a religiuos ceremony in the marvellous Duomo, full of important paintings.

Being very cloe to the seaside and to the connected residential area of Marina di Pietrasanta, where you can find exclusive villas and confortable hotels where you can combine sightseeing and relax. Do not forget that Weddings and Weddings is also able to arrange a symbolic weddings on the beach in one of the several beach clubs, famous all over Italy for their elegance and exclusivity, also in nice seasons as spring and early autumn. The exellence of the typical Tuscan food of this area can make the rest. Pietrasanta is based in a strategic area, close to nce towns as Lucca and Pisa and to coast locations as 5 Terre.

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Do not miss this opportunity to get married in such a nice place! Contact us at info@weddingsandweddings.com to get more information.

WEDDING IN FLORENCE
Florence is one of the best town in the world! A place full of history where you can discover works of art at every corner, where the friendly behaviour of the Florentines can help you to discover this town and to live it with the eyes of a local !
Florence can be the ideal location for your fairytale wedding in Italy!There could be many locations for your fantastic wedding ceremony. The civil wedding can be performed in the ‘well known’ sala Rossa of Palazzo Vecchio ;your religious catholic wedding can be arranged in a Romanic Church on the top of the hills near Fiesole as well as a protestant ceremony can be done at the St James American Church in the town centre.
There will be hundreds of possibility for your stay in Florence ! from a nice boutique hotel, to a rented vila on the hill of Fiesole, from a deluxe resort to a nice hotel overlooking the famous Arno river.
Do not forget that to arrange a wedding in Italy you need the assistance and the giudelines of a local wedding planner, as you can get easily lost in the Italian buricracy. Weddings and Weddings , with several years experinece in this sector, cam help you to arrange all arriving to your wedding day with no stress and ready to taste your Italian wedding !
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Getting married in Italy is an unique experience that many of you would like to live! But the idea of arranging a fairytale wedding in an historic villa in Tuscany can make this event exceptional!

Weddings and Weddings is able to offer you a wide selection of villas in the Lucca area, in the Chianti region between Florence and Siena, as well as in Versila, at the seaside towns of Viareggio or Forte dei marmi or in the southern Tuscan coast of Argentario or close to the natural parks in Maremma.

In most of these villas,  civil weddings can take place as several of them they have got a special llicence and authorization from the local Town Council to celebrate offcial wedding ceremonies. Beside other villas have their own Chaple where religious ceremonies ( Roman catholic or Protestant ) can be performed.

All these settings are apt to create an unique atmosphere and to personalise your wedding according to your taste and to offer something special to your family and your guests. The flavour of the typical Tuscan food and the view of the fantastic Tuscan landscape cna make teh rest !

Many of these villas has the opportunity to accomodate  you and your family, since you arrive till the end of your honeymoon, allowing you to live your wedding experience in a relaxing way, not stressed at all!

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Today I want to present another beautiful place for your wedding in Tuscany.  Close to the town of Pisa, at the border of the Pisan Mountains, there is the marvellous Villa Scorzi, for many centuries home of the famous noble family of the Scorzi’s and nowadays converted in a  luxorious location for weddings, events and meetings.

The main structure of the villa was built in the 13th century as rural farm. Later the etate became bigger and the noble Family of Counts Scorzi decided to convert the estate as their summer residence. The choise of this place was mainly due to the fact of the beautiful view and the silence of this fantastic place. Futher restorations and improvments have produced such a stylish place full of nice artistic elements.

Weddings and Weddings is now able to offer you this location as your ideal setting for your wedding ceremony. Due to its startegic postion between Pisa and Lucca, located very close to Pisa airport, it can be a suitable place for a fairytale wedding and a short break for your guests. The garden can be the loaction for your symbolic ceremony as well as the cosy Oratory in the park can be the setting for your religious ceremony. The villa has several halls of various dimensions as the Monumental court ot the Olives hall where a proper wedding gala dinner can take place.

Get ready for your fairytale wedding in Tuscany.  Ask for more detailed information at info@weddingsandweddings.com