Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, among Tuscany wedding venues: 300 guests and a pool above the valley

Among Tuscany wedding venues, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco gives you Il Pratino, a lawn facing the Serchio Valley, and rooms seating up to 300. Barga looks on from the hill opposite while you say your vows; drinks and dinner then move to other spaces, and indoors the Salone Pascoli and La Veranda stand by if the weather turns.

Updated 13 October 202614 min readHow we write the guide

La Piazzetta, the brick-paved square between the pink villas, under palm fronds, with terracotta pots and the mountains beyond

Who a wedding at Il Ciocco suits

Why choose it

You want a big wedding, the ceremony in the garden or the village church, drinks on La Piazzetta and every guest sleeping under one roof.

The spaces and seats

When to look elsewhere

You want a villa to yourselves or a civil ceremony guaranteed on site: Casale de’ Pasquinelli is hired only exclusively, and Villa Lena is a Casa Comunale.

Other venues

Marrying on the hill opposite Barga

From Il Pratino, Barga stands witness on the opposite hill. That is where you start picturing the ceremony, and then working out where to take your guests without losing the view.

Exclusive use has been on offer here for years. In September 2015 the resort took its weddings to the National Wedding Show in London, and the press release pointed out that the whole resort could be booked exclusively; today Marriott’s events page says the same: «Exclusive booking of our hotel and facilities is also available».

In 2019 World Bride named La Piazzetta and the Salone Pascoli as the most requested reception spaces, alongside pizza parties by the pool and drinks on La Veranda’s terrace. That same year a couple celebrated a 3-day wedding here with 85 guests.

For a glimpse of the day, the hotel posted a short film on Instagram in September 2025: a ceremony on the lawn, a violinist, white chairs, olive trees and, behind the couple, the valley.

Mind the name: Il Ciocco is also the estate around the hotel, a separate company that runs weddings of its own at the Taverna dello Scoiattolo, a thousand metres up. Those weddings are not the hotel’s. The Renaissance is a Marriott hotel, and its spaces are the ones on this page.

To tell the wedding story we read 6 Marriott pages, including the June copy of the weddings page, 2 wedding directories and 3 Tripadvisor accounts, and picked 4 videos, one of a ceremony on the lawn. Google’s reviews help less, and we would rather say so: of the 806 with text, only 11 describe a wedding at the hotel. 6 guests were there for a wedding or another event, and all give 4 or 5 stars. The others were staying through someone else’s: a wedding that runs for several days can be heard all over the resort, and whoever is planning one can book it exclusively.

The wedding day, space by space

Lawn, drinks, dinner: the order is yours to draw up with the hotel’s wedding team, rain plan included. Here is one possible day, space by space, with how many each one holds.

11am

Guests arrive

Guests flying into Pisa face 76 km, 79 minutes by car. There is no scheduled shuttle: the hotel’s Navigator arranges transfers, and for weddings Marriott lists chauffeured cars and reserved parking.

4pm

The ceremony

The vows can be said in the gardens or on a terrace, Marriott says, and the Il Pratino lawn seats 300. A church wedding means a short drive: 5 minutes and 2.2 km to Castelvecchio Pascoli, 10 minutes and 6.2 km to Barga Cathedral.

5.30pm

Drinks on La Piazzetta

La Piazzetta looks over the pool and the valley and holds 400 standing. From May to September the toast can move down to the poolside, for up to 250; and the night before, World Bride reports, some couples throw a pizza party by the pool.

7.30pm

Dinner

For dinner the Salone Pascoli seats up to 300, La Veranda 180 inside and 150 on its terrace. The kitchen is the hotel’s alone: asked whether the venue can be hired without its catering, Matrimonio.com answers «No», and describes 4 courses with Tuscan wines from the cellar and the cake.

10.30pm

The party

The party can run late: the Matrimonio.com listing sets no time limit on the reception and imposes no photographer or band, and a couple married here in 2019 mention an after-party in the resort’s club.

The next day

The couple’s room

The wedding night is spent in the Junior Suite the hotel gives the couple; guests get special rates, which Marriott does not publish.

The churches nearby and the other venues with a pool

The hotel and its pools, the 2 churches for a religious ceremony, and the other Tuscan venues with a pool compared further down.

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Renaissance Il CioccoThe lawn, the terraces, La Piazzetta and the Salone Pascoli
San Nicolò, Castelvecchio Pascoli5 minutes and 2.2 km by car
Barga Cathedral10 minutes and 6.2 km by car

Weddings at Il Ciocco, from Marriott’s weddings page

Marriott publishes no package and no price. What its weddings page promises, read on 27 September 2026 in English and Italian, is this.

On the weddings page

A complimentary Junior Suite for the couple and special rates for guests
Indoor and outdoor spaces for the ceremony and the reception, up to a banquet for 300
The hotel’s own catering and pastry kitchen, with a home-made wedding cake
Marriott Certified Wedding Planners, chauffeured cars and reserved parking
San Nicolò in Castelvecchio Pascoli and Barga Cathedral for a church wedding

The 8 wedding spaces, with seats and floor areas

From Marriott’s Italian weddings page, read on 27 September 2026.

Salone Pascoli	400 standing, 300 at a wedding reception; 675 m², 7.2 metres high
La Piazzetta	400 standing, 250 seated; 260 m² above the pool and the valley
La Veranda	200 standing and 180 seated inside, 180 and 150 on the terrace; 645 m²
Artisti	100 standing and 90 seated inside, the same on its terrace; 480 m²
Shops terrace	200 standing, 120 seated; 165 m²
Il Pratino	The garden: 300 seats, 383 m²
The pool	250 for cocktails, 150 for a pizza party; 505 m², open 1 May to 30 September
Vista Barga	25 inside, 20 standing or 10 seated on the terrace; 28 m²
The churches	San Nicolò in Castelvecchio Pascoli 2.5 km and Barga Cathedral 4 km away, says Marriott; by road 2.2 and 6.2 km

Swimming, dining and waking up above the Serchio Valley

The resort’s two pools: the outdoor one on a sunny morning, the indoor one beneath its arched windows.

**The valley, the rooms, both pools and the evening at the Nour Lounge, in 99 seconds**Overlook · 27 September 2026Watch on YouTube

**The outdoor pool in the morning, with Barga on the hill opposite**from 6:06 · Josie Duda · 8 June 2025Watch on YouTube

**Dinner on La Veranda’s terrace at dusk, mountains behind**Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco · 12 August 2025Watch on Instagram

**The resort from the air, on its wooded mountainside**Trip by Tormenta · 11 September 2025Watch on YouTube

**A wedding on the resort’s lawn, mountains behind**Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco · 4 September 2025Watch on Instagram

Rooms for the couple and the guests

The couple get a Junior Suite on the house; for the guests there are 180 rooms, according to the directories.

A Junior Suite with its sitting area and the window over the valley

The Penthouse Suite terrace at sunset, above the valley

The Junior Suite with a valley view, 42 m², has a sitting area and a dining corner; for a terrace of your own the morning after, there are the Penthouse Suite, 53 m², and the Presidential Suite. Marriott does not say how many rooms there are: 180 for Cvent, which splits them into 166 doubles and 14 suites, and for Matrimoni e Nozze.

All the rooms, with photographs

Other Tuscany wedding venues with a pool

6 Tuscan venues that count a pool among their wedding spaces: how many guests, how many rooms, and how far from Il Ciocco by car.

Search for Tuscany wedding venues and the lists come first: wedding directories, planners, Instagram. We read the pages of 6 Tuscan venues that name a pool among their wedding spaces or services. None publishes a price. On numbers, of those that give a guest count, only Il Ciocco goes beyond 200; on intimacy the others win, since Casale de’ Pasquinelli is hired only exclusively and Villa Marta has 18 rooms.

Venue	The pool and the ceremony, from its page	Guests and rooms	By car from Il Ciocco
Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa	Serchio Valley: an outdoor pool above the valley from 1 May to 30 September, for 250 at a drinks reception; ceremonies on the lawn or a terrace, churches 5 and 10 minutes away	Up to 300 seated and 400 standing; 180 rooms	The starting point
Albergo Belvedere	Garfagnana, at the Carpinelli pass: 2 outdoor pools, one for children, open 1 June to 15 September; civil ceremonies are held by the pool	Up to 200 guests; 28 rooms	43 min · 37.7 km
Casale de’ Pasquinelli	Lucca hills: a panoramic pool with a whirlpool, and a private one at Villa Margherita; approved premises for civil weddings	Exclusive hire only; 5 houses for 36 guests	54 min · 44.1 km
Albergo Villa Marta	Lucca countryside: the pool in the park of an 18th-century villa, among the wedding settings	Villa and park exclusively, if booked well ahead; 18 rooms	58 min · 47.8 km
Mondial Resort & Spa	Versilia, 150 metres from the sea: the outdoor pool with hydromassage, for the welcome toast or after the party	Up to 200 guests; the Blanco restaurant seats 120	74 min · 57.2 km
Villa Lena	Pisa hills: 3 pools, and the heated San Michele pool is one of the party settings; a Casa Comunale for civil ceremonies	130 seats; 74 beds across rooms and villas	110 min · 91.3 km
Castello di Spaltenna	Chianti: an outdoor infinity pool and a heated indoor one; the pool is among the wedding spaces, with a medieval parish church on site	Ceremonies for up to 90; the whole castle exclusively for 2 days	148 min · 178.2 km

Minutes and kilometres by car from the Renaissance to each venue, calculated on 27 September 2026 with OSRM on OpenStreetMap’s roads, without traffic, to the building or, where OpenStreetMap does not name it, to the address. The venues’ pages were read the same day, and each name links its own.

What guests say about weddings here
Those who came for a wedding, whether couples, guests or planners, praise the events team, the views and the choice of spaces, from 2014 to 2026. For guests staying while someone else’s wedding is on, a wedding that runs for several days can be heard all over the resort, and the common rooms fill with its guests.

Questions about a wedding at Il Ciocco

Guest numbers, civil ceremonies, prices, exclusive use, the pool, suppliers, travel and the season.

How many guests can a wedding at Il Ciocco take?

Up to 300 seated for a banquet and 400 standing for drinks, according to the weddings page. The directories go higher: 350 at most on Matrimonio.com, which asks for a minimum of 50, and on Matrimoni e Nozze; the hotel’s 2017 brochure gave 480 seats in the Salone Pascoli, today’s page 300.

Can you hold a civil ceremony at the hotel?

Possibly, but the sources disagree. The English weddings page listed «Civil Ceremony and Symbolic Ceremony» in June and on 26 September 2026; by 27 September the heading had gone, in every language. Tuscany for Weddings, the regional guide, has listed «Hotel Il Ciocco» among its civil-ceremony venues since 2022 without naming the building, and both directories say the ceremony can be held on site. Either way, Barga’s town council also holds civil weddings at the town hall.

How much does a wedding at Renaissance Il Ciocco cost?

Menus start at €140 a head on Matrimonio.com, which adds a fixed venue fee without saying how much, and run from €150 to €250 on Matrimoni e Nozze; the hotel itself publishes no prices, packages or venue fees. Neither listing is dated; we read both on 27 September 2026.

Can you have the whole resort to yourselves?

Yes, the events page offers it, but the hotel usually stays open. Reviews describe weddings alongside other guests: in 2023 a wedding and a conference at once, and in August 2026 areas closed off and breakfast moved to a smaller room. Matrimonio.com says the hotel holds one event a day.

What part does the pool play on the day?

It is the drinks space: 250 for cocktails or 150 for a pizza party, on 505 m², with La Piazzetta, where receptions are held, just above it. The outdoor pool is open between 1 May and 30 September. None of the reviews we read describes drinks by the pool at a wedding, and no source says whether other guests can swim meanwhile.

Can you bring your own photographer, band or planner?

Your photographer, band and planner, yes; your own caterer, no, because catering is the hotel’s. Matrimonio.com says there are no exclusive suppliers for photography and music, and in 2019 an outside planner ran a 3-day wedding here; the hotel also offers its own Marriott Certified Wedding Planners.

How do guests get there, and is there a shuttle?

By car, and there is no scheduled shuttle. Pisa airport is 76 km away, 79 minutes; Florence 104 km. The hotel’s Navigator arranges transfers, at €45 a person on Hotels.com and €130 on Agoda. In August 2026 one guest paid about €90 by taxi to Lucca and was quoted €140 to €200 to Pisa.

Which months are weddings held in?

From May to October, going by dated reviews and posts; the hotel is open all year and publishes no wedding season. Drinks by the pool need the months the outdoor pool is open, 1 May to 30 September.

The outdoor pool opens from 1 May to 30 September

Weddings on Marriott’s website

Written and checked by Lumina, independently of Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort & Spa. Lumina sells no rooms or tickets: every link leads to its source.

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