Palazzo
Pfanner

EVENTS

Weddings

Wedding receptions can be organised in the wonderful setting of Palazzo Pfanner. The garden can hold 300/400 people while the residence can accomodate a maximum of 110/120.

Meetings

The main hall of the residence is available for meetings. Booking is necessary. The seating for meetings may be arranged as follows:
- 100 people: in the form of a theatre;
- 60 people: in the form of a classroom;
- 40 people: in the form of a letter ‘U’.
The smaller rooms of about 20 mq each may be used as pressrooms, for meetings or for a buffet.

Concerts

Since 2009, between August and October, Palazzo Pfanner has a series of chamber concerts entitled 'Suoni di Lucca. Musica a Palazzo Pfanner' organized in collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra Luigi Boccherini, the city of Lucca and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.

Other

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The construction of Palazzo Pfanner goes back to 1660. It was the Moriconi family, members of the Lucca merchant nobility that commissioned its building. Ruined down by bankruptcy the Moriconi family was forced in 1680 to sell the building to the Controni family, silk merchants who had risen to the nobility. The Controni family extended the building: about 1686 they presided over the building of the grand staircase, presumably on the plans of the Lucca architect Domenico Martinelli, active especially in the European capitals of Vienna and Prague; at the beginning of the 18^th century they commissioned, in all probability, Filippo Juvarra to upgrade the garden behind; still in the same period they entrusted local 'quadraturisti' painters with decorating the vaults of the staircase and the inside of the aristocratic residence. The Pfanner family became involved with the century-old history of the Palazzo Pfanner towards the middle of the 19^th century. It was indeed Felix Pfanner, a local brewer of Hörbranz (Austria), but from a Bavarian family, who progressively acquired the entire structure after having set up his brewery there in 1846, one of the first in Italy. The historic Pfanner Brewery, the pleasant production site and beer garden situated between the garden and the cellars of the Palazzo, closed in 1929. The Palazzo is still the property of the Pfanner family, who, starting in 1995, has undertaken the demanding work of improvement by initiating restoration and has opened the Palazzo to visitors.

By Car

From Lucca
Leave the motorway A11 at the exit Lucca Est. Continue along viale Europa and the ring roads Lazzaro Papi and Carlo del Prete. Enter the town through Porta Santa Maria. Turn right along via della Cavallerizza. Reach piazza San Frediano. Continue to via Cesare Battisti. Take the first on the right: welcome in via degli asili.

From Capannori
Take via Pesciatina. Continue along via Pesciatina until the end of viale Castruccio Castracani. Turn right along the ring roads Guglielmo Marconi and Agostino Marti. Reach the roundabout of Borgo Giannotti. Enter the town through Porta Santa Maria. Turn right along via della Cavallerizza. Reach piazza San Frediano. Continue to via Cesare Battisti. Take the first on the right: welcome in via degli asili.

By Train

Leave the train station aand take via Cavour. Turn right and continue along the ring roads Giuseppe Giusti, Giacomo Pacini, Guglielmo Marconi and Agostino Marti. Reach the roundabout of Borgo Giannotti. Enter the town through Porta Santa Maria. Turn right along via della Cavallerizza. Reach piazza San Frediano. Continue to via Cesare Battisti. Take the first on the right: welcome in via degli asili.

By Plane

Land at the Airport Galilei of Pisa. Take the motorway A12 towards Genova. Continue along the A11 towards Firenze at the exit Pisa nord. Leave the motorway at the exit Lucca Est. Continue along viale Europa and the ring roads Lazzaro Papi and Carlo del Prete. Enter the town through Porta Santa Maria. Turn right along via della Cavallerizza. Reach piazza San Frediano. Continue to via Cesare Battisti. Take the first on the right: welcome in via degli asili.