Top 10 Amazing Place To Visit In Pisa

Top 10 Place To Visit In Pisa

10. Pisa Baptistery

The Pisa Baptistery of St. John  is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical building in Pisa, Italy.
it was begun in the middle of the 12th century as replacement of a previous Baptismal building, oldest and smaller, octagonal shape.

9. San Piero a Grado

San Piero a Grado  is a church in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, in the eponymous frazione 7 kilometres west of the city center. The church is located where once was a now disappeared port of the Pisan Republic, where, according to the legend, St. Peter landed in Italy from Antiochia in 44 AD.

8. Arno River

Arno River, Italian Fiume Arno, Latin Arnus, principal stream of the Toscana region, in central Italy. Rising on the slopes of Monte Falterona in the Tuscan Apennines, it flows for 240 km to the Ligurian Sea, receiving the Sieve, Pesa, Elsa, and Era rivers. Navigation on the river is negligible. In its upper course the Arno flows generally south through the former lake basin called Casentino, to turn west and north at Arezzo. The fertile valley of its middle course is called the Valdarno.

7. Santa Maria della Spina

Santa Maria della Spina is a small church in the Italian city of Pisa. The church, erected around 1230 in the Pisan Gothic style, and enlarged after 1325,was originally known as Santa Maria di Pontenovo for the newer bridge that existed nearby, collapsed in the 15th century, and was never rebuilt.
The church has always been administered by the city,except for short interruptions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when it fell to the responsibility of the local hospital.

6. National Museum of San Matteo

Beyond the blockbuster sights of the Campo dei Miracoli, Pisa offers a number of less well-known attractions and things to do. The former Benedictine Convent of San Matteo now houses Pisa's National Museum, featuring sculpture and pictures of the Tuscan schools from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Particularly interesting are the sculptures from various Pisan churches brought here to preserve them from weather and environmental damage and replaced by copies.

5. Palazzo Blu

Palazzo Blu is a center for temporary exhibitions and cultural activities located in 9 Lungarno Gambacorti, in the heart of the historic center of Pisa, Italy. This museum is managed by the Fondazione Palazzo Blu , and is located in the Palazzo Giuli Rosselmini Gualandi , ancient palace restored by the Fondazione Pisa. Its name comes from the blue color uncovered during an architectural recent restoration, and attributable to the taste of Russian owners who acquired the Palazzo in the eighteenth century.

4. Camposanto Monumentale

The Campo Santo, also known as Camposanto Monumentale , is a historical edifice at the northern edge of the Cathedral Squarein Pisa, Italy.
  According to peoples , Archbishop Ubaldo dei Lanfranchi returned from the Fourth Crusade with several shiploads of earth from Golgotha, so that the citizens of Pisa could be buried in sacred soil. The construction of the Camposanto (Sacred Field) to hold it began in 1278, a large rectangular cloister whose gallery of arches decorated with Gothic tracery open into the courtyard. 

3. Piazza del Duomo

Piazza del Duomo in English "Cathedral Square" is located in the heart of the historic center of Florence, . It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world and in Florence, the most visited area of the city. The square contains the Florence Cathedral with the Cupola del Brunelleschi, the Giotto's Campanile, the Florence Baptistery, the Loggia del Bigallo, the Opera del Duomo Museum, and the Arcivescovile and Canonici's palace. The west zone of this square is called Piazza San Giovanni.

2.  Cattedrale di Pisa

The definitive example of the Pisan architectural style, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is a five-aisled Romanesque basilica of white marble designed by Pisan architect Buscheto. Begun in 1063, after Pisa's naval victory over the Saracens, it was consecrated (still unfinished) in 1118, and towards the end of that century, a new west front was added and the main apse was completed. The decorated arcading on the splendid façade is continued round the side walls, and its transepts end in small apses that project well beyond the aisles. Dominating the whole interior is a well-proportioned oval dome. In the apse is a 13th to 14th-century mosaic of Christ enthroned between the Virgin and John the Evangelist, by Cimabue. Don't miss the bronze doors of the Porta di San Ranieri, with scenes from the lives of the Virgin and of Christ.

1. Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa  of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt. The tower is situated behind the Pisa Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in the city's Cathedral Square , after the cathedral and the Pisa Baptistry.
Every child has heard of it, and every visitor to Pisa probably heads first to what is undoubtedly the world's most famous tower: La Torre Pendente, the leaning campanile standing next to the cathedral. The foundation stone was laid in 1173, when Pisa was Italy's most powerful maritime republic, and its loggia-like tiers were modeled after the cathedral facade. Even before the third story was completed, the tower had already begun to sink alarmingly on its south side. When counterweighting the north side and slightly increasing the height of the south walls proved ineffective, construction was halted. 




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