/ HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
/ Royal Hotel Victoria, lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO] The oldest hotel in Italy reveals its illustrious guests [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]In the 10th century, the Corporazione dei Vinajoli, one of the Pisan artisan guilds, erected the oldest tower of the…
/ Torre sant’Agnese (St. Agnes Tower) and Manifatture Digitali Cinema (Digital Manufactures Cinema)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3904 e 3907 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO] The only original tower of the walls of Pisa and place of film productions [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]The Stallette, nineteenth-century structures that housed the first public slaughterhouses (later…
/ Museo della Certosa di Pisa, Calci (The Charterhouse of Pisa, Museum)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3905 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]Founded in 1366 in the hamlet of Calci, a few kilometres from Pisa, over the centuries the Carthusian monastery of Pisa has become one of the most beautiful in Italy. From the original medieval layout,…
/ Il cinematografo artistico (The artistic cinema)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3907 e 3911[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]The second cinema opened in Pisa was at Palazzo Mastiani Brunacci [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]The Mastiani Brunacci family arrived in Pisa from San Giovanni alla Vena in 1402, became noble in the 18th…
/ Cinema Lumiere, vicolo del Tidi
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3907[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO] One of the oldest cinemas in the world [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]On December 22, 1914, the new Splendor cinema opened with the following program: Il ladro (The thief) (3-act drama by Bernstein), and Pathé,…
/ La Sapienza
Although the University of Pisa began in the 13th century, it did not have a home. It was officially founded on 14th September 1343, when it was recognised by Bull of Pope Clement VI. After an interruption caused by the Florentine conquest of Pisa…
/ La Limonaia
The Limonaia behind palazzo Ruschi is a typical example of a construction built as part of a large garden “all’italiana”, designed in the 19th century Neoclassical style.The garden of the palazzo is recorded in a survey by Pietro Cancelli at the end…
/ Ex Monastero delle Benedettine
The church and convent, constructed by Benedictine nuns in 1393 on the southern bank of the River Arno, is now in private hands. It was built on part of an area known as tegularia in the early middle ages because of the many brick and pottery kilns…
/ Domus Galilaeana
The home of the Domus Galilaeana is in the ancient Palazzo della Specola, belonging to Pisa University. Built in 1734-35, this was the first public astronomical observatory in Tuscany. A high tower was expressly added to the building, raised on the…
/ Chiesa di San Zeno
The earliest evidence of the Church of San Zeno dates from 1029. In the middle ages it is described as standing in an area known as “alle grotte”, because of ancient ruins used as quarries for building materials. There are also several pieces of…