/ HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
/ Campano Tower and other medieval buildings
The most famous medieval building on Via Calvalca is the Torre dei Caciaioli, now known as Torre del Campano (from the bell that in the late 18th century summoned students to lectures at the university). This is a tall square building with pilasters…
/ Palazzo Vitelli
Like many other buildings along the Arno, Palazzo Vitelli is the result of uniting and partly demolishing several medieval case torri, built after the 11th century. The earliest case torri were made of stone but from the 13th century bricks were…
/ Palazzo Vecchio de’ Medici / Prefecture
The building, on Lungarno Mediceo began in the 11th century as a casa torre belonging to the nobleman Albizone (o Albitone). Over the centuries it had several owners: the Casapieri, the powerful Appiano family and after 1441, the Medici. In 1539…
/ Palazzo Toscanelli (once Lanfranchi), State Archives
Built in the first half of the 16th century by Bartolomeo Lanfranchi, this palazzo is situated directly opposite Palazzo Lanfranchi, built by his son Alessandro on the other side of the river. In 1505 Bartolomeo purchased a five-storey domus on the…
/ Palazzo della Scuola Sant’Anna
The Scuola Superiore S. Anna has occupied this building since 1987; Benedictine nuns, originally from S. Paolo di Pugnano (1086), who had moved to this convent (known at the time as S. Anna al Renaio) in 1275, began building it and the church of St…
/ Palazzo Salviati
The 14th century coats of arms that decorate the facade of this palazzo belonged to the first owners, the Ciampolini family, very rich Pisan merchants. In the mid 1400s, the Salviati family bought the building and installed a branch of their bank.…
/ Palazzo Roncioni
The coat of arms of the Roncioni family, representing a robust horse - a “concione” or “ronzone” – is displayed on the mid 17th century facade of the palace. A little further along the river is scalo Roncioni, one of the last remaining accesses to…
/ Palazzo Reale, Royal Palace
Built between 1583 and 1587 by will of the Grand Duke Francis I de’ Medici, to a plan by the Florentine architect Bernardo Buontalenti, the palace is situated in a prestigious area of Pisa, where the residence of the Marquis of Tuscia stood in the…
/ Palazzo Pretorio
The Government building or palazzo Pretorio, Headquarters of the Government Auditor and the Civil and Criminal Chancery, was one of the buildings involved in the process of renovation undertaken in the 18th and 19th centuries, that aimed to alter…
/ Palazzo Mosca , inizio XII- XVII secolo
The building on the Lungarno known as Palazzo Mosca is a combination of several towers. The oldest, dating from the end of the 12th century is the one with free-standing pilasters built on the façade entirely of stone, coupled at the top by a…