Facilities

Our facilities

Five active facilities, in five cities, for five different granting bodies. All under concession, all in historic or notable buildings.

Today

The Cooperative’s current facilities
FacilityCityGranting bodySinceWhat
Student’s Hostel EstenseFerraraMunicipality of Ferrara2008Hostel, bar, restaurant, bike hire
Student’s Hostel GowettCampiglia Marittima (LI)Parchi Val di Cornia2009Hostel, catering for guests, swimming pool
Student’s Hostel della GhiaraReggio EmiliaMunicipality of Reggio Emilia2011Hostel; restaurant, bar and events with Al Chiostro della Ghiara
Residence Le BenedettinePisaUniversity of Pisa2014Guest house for academics, researchers and University guests
Student’s Hostel L. FerrarisParmaMunicipality of Parma2021Hostel
Palazzo Gowett, in the San Silvestro Archaeological Mining Park

Student’s Hostel Gowett

Campiglia Marittima (LI) · Parchi Val di Cornia · since 2009

Hostel, catering for guests, swimming pool

The courtyard of the Ghiara complex

Student’s Hostel della Ghiara

Reggio Emilia · Municipality of Reggio Emilia · since 2011

Hostel; restaurant, bar and events with Al Chiostro della Ghiara

The Le Benedettine guest house with its loggia and pine trees

Residence Le Benedettine

Pisa · University of Pisa · since 2014

Guest house for academics, researchers and University guests

Where we work

Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany today, Sicily at our origins: the registered office is still in Palermo, where the Cooperative was born.

Map of the cities where the Cooperative runs or has run facilities: Parma, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Pisa, Campiglia Marittima and Palermo Parma Reggio Emilia Ferrara Pisa Campiglia Marittima Palermo registered office

current facilities past management only

Campiglia Marittima
Student’s Hostel Gowett
Ristorante Santa Barbara, 2016–2026
Palermo · registered office
Student’s Hostel San Saverio, ten summers, from 2006
Student’s Hostel Palermo, 2010

The facilities we no longer run are part of what we know how to do: university residences, historic convents, a restaurant in a park, social reception.

Do you have a facility to entrust to an operator?

Write to us to get to know the Cooperative, discuss a collaboration or ask for our references.

Let’s talk

Or write to amministrazione@ballaro.org or call +39 0522 452323