The Municipality of San Giuliano Terme is an important health resort in the province of Pisa with a population of about 30000 inhabitants. It is near a vast natural reserve and it is rich in remarkable architectural monuments.

In effect, San Giuliano Terme is well-known not only for its sulphate-alkaline and curative waters but also for its Multimedia Museum and its wonderful 24000 hectares Regional Park. Moreover, St. Mark's Parishes in Rigoli and in Asciano, which are in the surroundings, can be admired .
San Giuliano's territory was the base of ancient settlements since the Neolithic, but the Etrurians were the first permanent settlers of this area. Besides discovering its hot springs, they transformed this place into an important marble extraction centre.
This civilization left its traces in places called "Castellieri", which are still visible on the mountains overlooking the town. The Romans continued the development of the thermal baths. Part of the aqueduct that they built to carry water from San Giuliano to Pisa is still preserved.
The information about the village faded in the chaotic period of the Barbarian invasions and appeared again in 1112, when the Countess Matilde financed the renovations of the baths.
It seems that the leader of mercenaries Castruccio Castracani fortified San Giuliano in the first decades of the XIV century. The tower that he supposedly ordered to be built was destroyed by Lucca in 1397 at the end of a century characterized by the fights between Lucca and Pisa for the control over Sangiuliano's territory.
After the Florentine town hall took it in 1406, the lands of the area underwent a period of decadence and stagnation, which lasted until XVI century.
Cosimo I de' Medici started great reclamations and reconstruction works in the spa once he came into power in Florence. Nevertheless, this was not followed by his successors. It was thanks to the Grand-ducal family dynasty of the Hapsburg-Lorraine that the Baths of San Giuliano (this was their name until 1935) reached their splendour, with the reconstruction of the whole thermal plant, the accomplishment of the reclamations and the acquisition of the communal autonomy, which was granted in 1776.
After the bloodshed of the Nazi-Fascist occupation in central Italy, the municipality of San Giuliano Terme entered the post-war period with a strong economic growth, which was also due to the development of handicraft and tourism. In particular, the latter was an effect of thousands of people rushing its springs to cure the wounds inflicted to their bodies and their spirit by the war just ended .