/ PLACES OF WORSHIP
/ Basilica of San Piero a Grado
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901 e 3910[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The current building was erected between the 10th and 12th centuries, but it is a very complex building in which numerous transformations have taken place, also studied through the archaeological…
/ Church of San Martino
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The church is mentioned starting from 1067 with the name of San Martino in Guazzolongo, in reference to the longest ford to cross the river. The façade still shows the typical elements of the Pisan…
/ Le Piagge and San Michele degli Scalzi
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The name comes from the use, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of the river banks as beaches equipped with bagnetti, small wooden constructions used for undressing and wearing swimwear. From…
/ Church of San Francesco
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3904 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]FERDINANDUS MAGNUS DUX ETR.III AN. SAL. M.D.CIII: the façade bears the name of Grand Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, who commissioned the work, and the year of construction, but the history of this…
/ Church of San Paolo all'Orto and Gipsoteca
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The church is documented from 1086 as a regular rectory. Entrusted to the Dominican nuns of Sant'Agostino, in 1819 it passed to the Confraternity of Santa Barbara, which restored most of the…
/ Church of San Pierino in Vinculis
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] San Pierino in Vinculis is mentioned in 763 with the name of San Pietro ai Sette Pini. Today it looks like an elegant and austere building, which plays on the dual tone of the verrucana stone and the…
/ Church of Santa Cecilia, via Santa Cecilia
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The church of Santa Cecilia was founded by the Camaldolese monks of San Michele in Borgo in 1103, but some documents mentioned it as a parish starting from 1199. In the 14th and 15th centuries various…
/ Church of Santo Stefano and Arena Garibaldi
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3904 e 3906 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Near the San Gilio tower there is Porta Santo Stefano, closed during the Florentine rule, which on the lintel bears this inscription: IPT.C.TT.PPPH.Q.P.O.P P R \E Ad M. CCZ.L.M Its…
/ Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, piazza del Duomo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Conceived by the genius of Busketo (whose remains rest in a Roman sarcophagus, part of the façade) and built starting from 1063, it was dedicated to the Assumption in honour of the victorious battle of…
/ Baptistery of San Giovanni Battista, piazza del Duomo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The Baptistery of Pisa stands out for its considerable size: about 55 meters high and with a circumference of 107.24 meters, the largest in the world. Construction began in 1153 by Diotisalvi, who signed…