“One can rightly say that the "Bagni di Pisa" Spa brings relief to some, to many it brings back health that was lost, and it gives great joy to everyone, being so to say, the most beautiful vacation spot of Italy,” by Cavalier S.B. , anonymous reporter on the customs of the people from Pisa in the 18th century. Once loved by the Etruscans and the ancient Romans, it became famous for the nobility all over Europe in 1743, when the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francesco Stefano of Lorena, made it his own summmer spa residence, as well as a fashionable meeting place which had among its other importnt guests well-known people such as Gustav of Sweden, George IV of England, Vittorio Alfieri, Percy B. and Mary Shelley, Ibrahim Pascia, The Cardinal of York and Carlo Goldoni