/ URBAN ARCHITECTURE
/ Old tramway station, via Cagliaritana
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3910 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]In 1892 the Pisa - Marina di Pisa railway line was inaugurated: 13 km in 42 minutes! It was called 'Stràsciapoveri': left the Pisa station in Piazza Sant'Antonio and reached the sea, here in this…
/ Piazza Sardegna
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3910 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]A curious fact: on 6 January, usually around 11.30, Citizens of Pisa and Livorno meet here for the 'Befana dive'. At 12.00 noon they dive into the sea for the first swim of the year. A collective…
/ Piazza Viviani
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3910[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]One of the main squares in Marina is dedicated to a Pisan artist, known above all for the graphic art of engraving: Giuseppe Viviani (1898 - 1965). The coast was one of his favourite subjects and the…
/ Piazza Chiara Gambacorti and the Kinzica district
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]Piazza Chiara Gambacorti is a corner very dear to the Pisans, who called it piazza la Pera (Pear square), due to the presence of a Etruscan headstone , on the corner between Via la pera and via San…
/ The medieval walls of Pisa
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3904 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]It is not certain that Pisa had walls from the Etruscan, Roman, or even Lombard period. The geographical position, on the confluence of the Arno and Auser rivers (today Serchio), the dense…
/ Coltano estate
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 4244[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The estate, which extends for about 300 hectares, is mainly flat, and is characterised by agricultural lands and by the presence of accommodation facilities and restaurants obtained from farmhouses…
/ Canale dei Navicelli
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3902 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] In the 1500s, the need to create a link between Pisa and the future city of Livorno grew stronger, given the poor conditions of the Pisan docks, no longer suited to modern naval needs. In 1541,…
/ Porta Santa Marta, Gondole, Acquedotto
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3904 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]A picturesque corner of the city, where the medieval walls, near the door and the hatch of Santa Marta (15th century), so called from the name of the nearby monastery, join the aqueduct of a…
/ Keith Haring 'Tuttomondo'
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3904 e 3913 e 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Tuttomondo mural was made by Keith Haring in 1989. Piergiorgio Castellani, a Pisan boy, one day met him in New York and proposed him to go to Pisa to create one of his street art works…
/ Via San Lorenzo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3911 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Sant'Anna School, in Piazza Martiri della Libertà, has dedicated the college in via San Lorenzo 26 to Tiziano Terzani. Terzani was born in Florence in 1938 and in 1957 began to study in Pisa, having…