Baglietto began in 1854, when Pietro Baglietto started building small boats at Varazze on the Ligurian coast. Early work covered fishing craft and sailing dinghies, and by 1906 the yard had launched Giuseppina, at 22.6 metres one of the first Italian pleasure craft to carry an internal combustion engine. The name grew through racing sailing yachts and then through fast military craft, including the MAS torpedo boats produced in large numbers during the First World War. That long run of building for speed and for the sea left the yard with a reputation for engineering that still shapes its motor yachts today.
The modern Baglietto sits within the Gavio family group, which took ownership in 2012 and gave the yard the industrial backing to build in steel and aluminium at scale. More than a century and a half of continuous work makes Baglietto one of the oldest names still active in Italian yacht building. The anniversary in 2024 marked 170 years of the brand. Few European yards can point to a record of this length.
The current range splits into clear families. The DOM line carries the yard's contemporary displacement thinking, drawn by Studio Vafiadis and built to maximise interior volume within a sub-500 GT envelope. Its name comes from the Latin domus, meaning home, and the models run from the 34.5 metre DOM115 up to the 46 metre DOM155 flagship. These are steady, comfort-led yachts aimed at owners who want long stays aboard rather than high speed.
The T-line is the yard's traditional displacement family, shaped for more than twenty years by Francesco Paszkowski Design. The T52 anchors it with a steel hull, a diesel-electric hybrid system and a length that sits in the 50 metre segment where Baglietto has long concentrated. Separate again is the Fast line, the planing and semi-displacement aluminium yachts such as the 43m Fast and the Superfast 42 that reach 28 knots and more. Between them the three families cover slow-cruising volume yachts and genuine fast craft.
Baglietto now runs from two sites in northwest Italy, with its headquarters at La Spezia in Liguria and an operational yard at Carrara in Tuscany. The La Spezia plant covers around 35,000 square metres and handles the larger steel and aluminium builds. The setting places the yard among the deep naval harbours of the northern Tyrrhenian, close to the marble quarries and design studios of the region. Proximity to that supply chain feeds the yard's custom work.
La Spezia has long been a centre for Italian naval and yacht construction, and Baglietto's presence there ties the brand to that industrial base. The yard builds mostly to order, which lets owners shape layout and finish within each platform. Refit and service work also runs through the sites. This gives the brand a working relationship with its yachts well beyond delivery.
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