/ HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
/ Via Livia Gereschi
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]We remember Livia Gereschi for her courage and her love of her neighbour. Livia had a degree in foreign languages and was a German teacher. During the Second World War, she was in Molina di Quosa, a…
/ Palazzo Cevoli, via San Martino
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] A 17th century palace, born from the combination of nine tower houses built between the 12th and 14th centuries: observing the façade, we can observe the restoration technique that left the stone…
/ Palazzo Salviati and the Pear, via San Martino
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3902 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The inscription on the lintel reads Averardus et Antonius Philippi Salviati fecerunt. The building was owned by the Ciampolini family (their coats of arms are still present on the façade), Pisan…
/ Palazzo Agostini and Caffè dell'Ussero, lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]Palazzo Agostini: the result of the unification of two medieval tower houses that took place in the fourteenth century by the will of the Astajo family. The façade stands out among the others on the…
/ Palazzo Chiesa, lungarno Galilei
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3911 e 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Here, on the last part of the ruined wall (a wound from the Second World War, never healed) we read, on an epigraph, the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poet, together with his wife Mary…
/ Palazzo Roncioni, lungarno Mediceo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3911 e 3912 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The façade was born from the union of the five tower houses purchased by the Roncioni family between 1630 and 1643. Indeed, we can recognise the previous medieval structures on both sides. The…
/ 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…