Former Hotel Nettuno, lungarno Pacinotti
The hotel Nettuno remained in business until the second half of the twentieth century and is now home to the student house known as Residenza Nettuno.
Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon in 1912, stayed with her husband at the Nettuno, of which she memorised images that she used twenty years later in the story Flush, where she describes, through the eyes of a cocker, the life of Elisabeth Barrett and Robert Browning who, during their trip, stayed in Pisa as well: she published it when she returned here for the second time, in 1933.
Cit. The Arno flows away, with the usual coffee-colored foam. (...) All the colours here are white - blue marble against a very bright and pure sky. The tower leans, prodigious. A begging friar at the entrance with an extravagant leather hat. The walking clergy...
Diary of Virginia Woolf (12 May 1933)
Sanchte Michael Archaengele - festival musicale
30m
chiesa di San Michele in Borgo
03-10-2020
04-10-2020
