/ HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
/ 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…
/ Borgo Stretto and the Vanni house
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]One of the modern commercial axes of the city dates back to the Middle Ages, when the district of Foriporta, now San Francesco, was included in the perimeter of the 12th century walls. The term bŭrgus,…
/ Former Hotel Nettuno, lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3911 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Feroci family bought the building, which took on its present appearance in 1831 thanks to architect Alessandro Gherardesca. The hotel had one hundred and ten rooms. A brochure published at the end…
/ Via della Faggiola, 19
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3911 e 3912[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]Giacomo Leopardi spent seven months in Pisa, from November 1827 to early June 1828. Born in Recanati in 1798, from a very young age, when he was 11, began to devote himself to what he called 'mad…
/ Collegio Ferdinando, via Santa Maria
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The college is part of a renewal program of the University of Pisa, the main study centre of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Ferdinand I wanted to open its doors to all deserving students, even those who…
/ Museum of Calculation Instruments and Museum of Physics Instruments, in the old slaughterhouses
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3903 e 3904 e 3905 e 3908[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Vecchi Macelli (Old slaughterhouses) of Pisa, built at the end of the 19th century, but never completely used. The slaughterhouses were the largest structures, but there were also…
/ Royal Palace, Lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3905[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Royal Palace, or Granducale, stands on the area of the ancient palace of the Marquises of Tuscia and the tower houses of the wealthy Dodi and Caetani families. In 1583, the palace was…
/ Palazzo Ricucchi, lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] It originally had a public porch under the Bocci tower and although the façade shows medieval elements, such as the coats of arms of the Ricucchi family and the dual tone of the royal lines, the…
/ Arsenals and Cittadella
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Republican Arsenal and Citadella: a great water basin within the walls, dated 1160. The structure was impressive, so much so that King Alfonso IV of Aragon, when he commissioned the construction…
/ Palazzo Blu, lungarno Gambacorti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The palace is one of the most characteristic of the Pisan Lungarno. Founded by Doge Giovanni dell'Agnello in 1356 over a pre-existing nucleus of tower houses dating from the 12th and 13th centuries (…