Between Pisa and Lucca, at the foot of the mountain dividing them, San Giuliano Terme was a Grand Tour capital: Montaigne, Byron and Shelley — who lived here with his household — took the waters along with half of Europe seeking springs and conversation. The eighteenth-century spa palace, with its exedra square, keeps that grand-ducal elegance.
The territory is a mosaic of Lucchese villas and Romanesque parish churches, with the Medici aqueduct marching toward Pisa on six hundred arches. The Leaning Tower is ten minutes away by bicycle along the mountain: you arrive fresh — the Pisans will approve.
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