Bastione Stampace

Bastione Stampace (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
Bastione Stampace (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
The cannonballs: the 'people's war'. Thus in the 16th century the episode of 1499 was known throughout Europe. It left its traces right in the walls beyond the Stampace bastion, in via Nino Bixio. Looking out over the external side, near the interruption of the medieval layout, we can still see grey stone balls set between stones and bricks: they are the cannon balls used by the Florentine militias to make a breach, placed by the Pisans to decorate the walls in mockery of the enemy

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