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ike Grotta Giusti, the 61-room Bagni di Pisa is part of the
Italian Hospitality Collection, and it’s also housed in an
Lhistoric Tuscan property with a renowned thermal spa. The
Bagni di Pisa villa, replete with historic frescoes, was owned by
the Medicis before the Lorena family adopted it as their summer
residence, less than four miles from the city of Pisa.

Through the centuries, Bagni di Pisa has hosted illustrious
guests like George IV of England, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley,
for whom the hotel’s glamourous Shelley Bar is named. (Maybe
Mary dreamt up Frankenstein after one too many martinis?)
It’s easy to imagine such glitterati sitting down to dinner in the
elegant Dei Lorena restaurant, although perhaps not so casually
attired as some guests today, who don’t hesitate to rock up in
their spa robes and slippers, particularly at lunch.

Set amid flowering fruit trees and botanical gardens, Bagni di
Pisa features an outdoor thermal pool and four indoor pools; the
Hammam dei Granduchi, a romantic natural grotto with a two-
person bath fed by a thermal waterfall; and the Salidarium, where
I’m buried up to my neck in a bed of warm salt crystals, emerging
some twenty minutes later feeling as delectable as a salted cod.

But the resort’s piece de resistance is the afore-mentioned fan-
gotherapy, which is also subsidized by the Italian government.
Before I meet the mud, a man in a white lab coat takes my blood
pressure, which proves to be low – hardly surprising, considering
I’ve already spent two days kicking back at Grotta Giusti.

Bagni di Pisa spa resort in Tuscany features
a large outdoor swimming pool filled with
thermal water. Copyright Amy Laughing- “... I’m buried up to my neck in a bed of warm
house.
salt crystals, emerging some twenty minutes
Opposite top: The Bioaquam Circuit in
Bagni di Pisa’s Levante Spa is a 70-square- later feeling as delectable as a salted cod.”
metre thermal pool containing a series of
hydro-massage stations, situated beneath
an arched glass roof. Courtesy Bagni di
Pisa, Italian Hospitality Collection.

Opposite bottom: A suite with a soaring
frescoed ceiling at Bagni di Pisa spa resort
in Tuscany. Courtesy Bagni di Pisa, Italian
Hospitality Collection.

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