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/ Relief of Kinzica, Via San Martino
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 e 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] On the façade of Casa Tizzoni, dating back to the 12th century, there is a bas-relief, part of a Roman sarcophagus from the 3rd century AD, commemorating a Pisan heroine. It is said that in 1004…
/ Marriage of the sea, towards the end of viale D'Annunzio
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 e 3910 e 3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] This rite was celebrated on the 6 of July to recall the maritime tradition of mutual respect between the city and the sea. Originally a large and rich procession of ships set off carrying…
/ The Crucifix, piazza del Crocifisso
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]It was August 28, 1837, when a wicked hand, as the inscription states, threw a stone against the little marble Crucifix exhibited in a niche protected by a glass. Almost by miracle the stone remained…
/ 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…
/ Institute of Biomedicine, Via San Zeno
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Between the branches of the trees, we can see two buildings of the University of Pisa, built in 1908, which house the institute of Physiology and Biomedicine (access from Via San Zeno). The…
/ Sferisterio, via del Brennero
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]In the area known as the ice-house, along the walls of Porta a Lucca, we can still see the painted traces of three triangles with two Italian flags on the sides of each. They represented the limits…
/ 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…
/ Calambrone
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3910[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]Rationalist and futurist architecture[/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]Also Calambrone, like Tirrenia, was born in the Fascist era, as we can still see in the architecture of the old bathing facilities, in the…
/ Marina di Pisa
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3910 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]A seaside resort since 1872 [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]'The village of sand and of spirits' Marina was officially founded in 1872, but in 1905 the sea had already eroded much of the beach that had been…
/ Teatro Verdi (Theatre)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]A temple of Opera conceals the large Titta Ruffo collection and remembers Sophia Loren [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO] The theatre is dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi, but was originally called the Regio Teatro Nuovo…