Bastione Stampace

   
Bastione Stampace (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
Bastione Stampace (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
Giorgio Vasari, in the hall of the Cinquecento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, painted the taking of Pisa (1563), an episode that immortalises the mighty bastion from which the old fourteenth-century tower rises, called Stampace (star in pace - be in peace, possibly used as a prison). The painting represented the power exercised by the Medici, in particular of Cosimo I, over Pisa. In reality, the episode represented was a big fiasco for the Florentine militias, since it refers to the Siege of Pisa and in particular to 10 August 1499. Pisa, freed from Florence in 1494 by King Charles VIII of France, resisted the attack thanks to the help of Lucca and above all to the intervention of women and the elderly. That date therefore represents a defeat for Florence (the peace agreement between the two cities was signed only in 1509). In the 17th century, during the government of Cosimo III, the bastion was further strengthened by adding an embankment structure. In the 19th century the bastion became part of one of the first railway systems of the city: a platform for the turning of railway wagons was inserted in the building.
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AFFITTACAMERE
150m
Via Cesare Battisti, 99
Recapito 340 5468497
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310m
Quarantola, 36
Recapito 339 4840897
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140m
Via Di P.Ta Mare, 7
Recapito 050 525396
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