Getting married in Tuscany

The strangest locations for weddings in Tuscany

In Tuscany you can get married in a museum, by the sea on a sunny beach, in a medieval village, in a castle or “in the green”. There are many locations for weddings in Tuscany that can surprise lovers, but also guests.

Getting married in Florence, in the municipality or at the museum

The latest news in Florence is the ex infirmary of the convent of Santa Maria Novella, which from September 2019 will be added to the list of “art locations” suggested by the Municipality for those who want to get married. Already today it is possible to say “yes” in some pearls of the historic center, such as inside Palazzo Vecchio (Sala di Lorenzo and Salone dei Cinquecento, as well as in the “classic” Red Room, the low cost and free choice for Florentines living in the city) or in the Bardini Museum (charity room).
To these are added, in the suburbs, the council room of Villa Vogel in the Isolotto district. The Municipality has dedicated a section of its institutional website to those who want to get married in Florence, with the list of places and their prices.

Location for weddings in Tuscany, by the sea and on a pier

Faith on your finger and feet on the sand. We start from a location reminiscent of the Seychelles, but it is closer and low cost: the white beaches of Vada, in the Livorno area. The Municipality of Rosignano recently said “yes” to the wedding by the sea.
The wedding overlooking the coast is possible in the suggestive bay of Castiglioncello. Wedding on the ferry on the Island of Elba, which for ceremonies on the beach offers various places between Marciana and Capoliveri, from the fine sand of Procchio to the golden beach of Lacona. Orange blossoms not only on the beach: in Versilia the wedding march climbs on the modern pier of Lido di Camaiore (Lucca), when they reach their end it will seem to be in the middle of the sea.

Tuscan castles suitable for a wedding, the advice

A few kilometers from Florence we find the Castle of Calenzano, a small fortified village born in the twelfth century, made available by the Municipality for wedding ceremonies. On the coast, instead, the Pasquini Castle of Castiglioncello is a suggestive nineteenth-century structure that recalls medieval buildings.
Moving to Siena, Monteriggioni also offers spouses and guests the garden inside the walls, while in Val d’Orcia there is the Castle of Sarteano, a structure of fifteenth-century origin: wedding in an internal room or in the courtyard and the reception between the “Piazza d ‘arms’ outside and the Parco dei Lecci. Finally, on the Island of Elba, the Municipality of Marciana allows you to get married in the Pisan fortress.

Green wedding or in the mountains

Below Piazzale Michelangelo, the Rose Garden of Florence is perfect for a panoramic wedding: a unique view of the city, hundreds of ancient species of roses and even the sculptures of the artist Jean Michel Folon make this location an open-air museum.
The rose garden of Florence
“Green” newlyweds can also choose the Pisan coast where the San Rossore natural park offers open air ceremonies on the estate of the Presidency of the Republic (once a possession of the Savoy). In case of rain, weddings can be hosted inside the villa del Gombo.
In the center of Pisa, wedding in the Scotto Garden or in the nearby Sangallo Fortress, while the more adventurous can go up to the mountains to say yes to the Baita Verde, near Campo all’Orzo, on the Apuan Alps.

Civil ceremonies in the theater, from Fiesole to Val d’Orcia

Invited instead of spectators and spouses as protagonists. Among the most particular locations for a wedding there are theaters. The oldest is the Roman theater of Fiesole, which offers a terrace overlooking the archaeological area for ceremonies.
The Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena is also unique, seven centuries of history inside the public palace. Then again wedding in the stalls in Sarteano (Siena), under the nineteenth-century stuccos of the Teatro degliArrischianti, and in the center of Camaiore (Lucca) among the armchairs of the Teatro dell’Olivo.

Saying “yes” in villas, churches and chapels: from Chianti to Pisa

For a wedding in history it is possible to get married, with a civil ceremony, in the small Chapel of San Michele Arcangelo in Semifonte, which is located in Barberino Val d’Elsa, in the Florentine Chianti. Erected at the end of the sixteenth century, it has a very particular shape because it reproduces the Brunelleschi’s dome of the Florence Cathedral in scale 1 to 8.
Still in the same orange blossom area, also in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Malaspina, in the center of the medieval village of San Donato in Poggio, in the municipality of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa. In Pisa, on the other hand, it is possible to marry with a civil ceremony in a deconsecrated church: the Municipality of Pisa opens the doors of the former Abbey of San Zeno, near Piazza Santa Caterina, an ancient monastery whose origins date back to the year 1000.

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