| | Facilities within the Property |
 At Palazzo Guiscardo we offer a 24h Concierge Service that will help you planning and organizing your journey in Tuscany. Guided tours and excursions, wine and olive oil tasting, cooking course, painting and sculpting workshop with local artist intensive italian language courses, Outlet Safari with a Personal Shopper or Health and Fitness week with a Personal Trainer, Wedding in Pietrasanta, Small Business Incentive and much more... |
 Our facilities includes a Bar service in the lounge with spirits, cocktails and aperitifs and an exclusive wine list. An internet WI-FI connection downstairs and through modem in the bedrooms. A small Gym with fitness machinery and a wellness area for massage and beauty treatment.
We propose to rent:
- Bycicles
- Scooter and Motorbike
- A Mini-van with a driver sitting up to 7 pax.
- We do organize many different tours ranging from the classical Art's city like Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Siena to the fishing villages of Cinqueterre. |
 Just to give you an example following are two of our best-selling tours:
1) Guided visit into the secret world of the laboratories and studios of marble workers and mosaic artists. Famed as ' Little Athens ', Pietrasanta represents the world centre for artistic works in bronze and marble. Fondries, Artisans laboratories are at the very heart of this secret antique world of fascinating tradition. How does a piece of art come about? Is it really possible to enter the world where these artists work? How and with what instruments did Michelangelo create his sculptural masterpieces? The answers to these questions can be found in this exclusively unique guided tour into the mystery of the artists at work in Pietrasanta. You will have the opportunity to enter the artists' studios, admire people at work, satisfy your every curiosity into phases of creation, workmanship, refined technique, and the very masterpieces in the making in bronze and marble that render Pietrasanta a city unique in all the world. See the artisans of mosaic, masters of speed, constructing complicated figures using small pieces of glass in more than 3000 different gradations of colours. |
 The artistic experience continues with a discovery of the lives of the citizens: after visiting how works of art are made, those which have made Pietrasanta famous the world over, we will admire the final results. Taking a brief walk through the romantic historic centre of the city, meet masterpieces of art from the past and present: Visit the Church of S. Antonio where Botero created his freschi "l'Inferno e il Paradiso"; enter the Duomo of S. Martino, rich in works from the Middle Ages and 1800s, only after enlightening our curiosity can we experience such details first-hand in discovering the secrets of marble work. With eyes wide open, admire the harmonious and masterful "Centauro", the beautiful bronze by Igor Mitoraj.
Duration of Tour: around 3 hours. For groups with a minimum of two pax. and a maximum of seven pax. |
 2) Guided visit to the marble quarries of Carrara. The marble quarries of Carrara have furnished the finest raw material to the world's most famous sculptors for centuries. If you love masterpieces in Art and Nature, this itinerary is a one of a kind, not to be missed.
- 1st part: A visit to the marble quarry of Fantiscritti, the largest in the world and outside the realm of usual tours. From Monday to Saturday tour the quarries in open air as the mythic workers excavate the marble, completely immerged in a rich atmosphere of strong ancestral traditions of this work which still today represents a difficult and dangerous occupation.
- 2nd part: In dubiously the most intense experience, in order to understand this fantastic world from the which up to now could only be observed from the outside, we will visit the gallery of a marble quarry, directly entering the heart of the mountain, an immense space, where courageous men live up to 10 hours a day deprived of sunlight extracting the precious marble of Carrara. (We advise appropriate clothing, as the caves are cold.) |
 - 3rd part: Visit the school of young sculptors in the marble quarry of Fantiscritti. This open air 'laboratory' puts the artist in direct contact with the marble, and why not? To try the drill and lime trying to revive the sensations and emotion that the great Michelangelo experienced here, in these quarries so many centuries ago.
- 4th part: Brief excursion into the village of Colonnata, home to the cave workers, the anarchists movement and that exquisite gastronomic specialty, "Lardo". From the heights of this historic town admire the immense beauty of the quarries of Carrara, the resourcefulness of tenacious men and aspire to that precious treasure to which Mother Nature has made us the custodian.
Duration of Tour: around 4 hours. Palazzo Guiscardo will take care of transportation for a minimum of two pax. to a maximum of seven pax. |
| Property Facilities Summary: |  Bicycle Rentals | Boat Hire (without Crew) | | Car Rental | Computer | | Fax Machine | Garage | | Guide-Dogs Welcome | Internet Wireless | | Laundry | Newspaper | | Private Transfer To/From Airport | Public Parking | | Shuttle To / From Airport | Shuttle To / From Beach | | Shuttle To / From Bus Station | Shuttle To / From City | | Shuttle To / From Rail Station | Small Dogs Welcome | | Wi-Fi | | | |
| Pietrasanta: ancient city of origin medioeval, is the historical chief town of the Versilia and the capital of the artistic workmanship of the Marble to consider. Common with strong tourist vocation, his harbor is a famous bathing station and his mountains a fascinating destination. The beauty of the historical center is perfectly married the shops of the artisans of the marble, with the famous bronze foundries and with the laboratories where artistic mosaics are created appreciated all over the world. Pietrasanta does faith to his tradition showing interesting examples of religious architecture, soldier and civilian. In the religious art, that introduces varied influences, the influence is easily recognizable pisano (with its Byzantine elements) and that Gothic. His artistic patrimony, undoubtedly tied up to the city circumstances, understands valuable works of famous teachers of chisel, from historical searches the passage of the great Michelangelo is signalled, that lived here while it was choosing the marbles of its works in the near caves of marble and here it treated the acquisition of the marbles for the façade of S.Lorenzo to Florence. Pietrasanta still a reference and meeting point for painters and sculptors of national and international fame. As Fernando Botero whom lives and works in Pietrasanta: you will immediately notice his giant bronze works ranging from the classical, curvy woman to the Roman warrior in Piazza Matteotti just nearby Palazzo Guiscardo. Surely, you will find others novelty this year, as this small town is in continuos movement, due to the fact that its strategy is to focalize on the promotion of contemporary art. An intense programm of temporary exhibits and national and international level events is runned over the course of the year. |
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