Palazzo Gambacorti (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)The palace, originally divided into two distinct properties, belonged to the Counts of Donoratico. The building, located in Carraia San Gilio, the current Corso Italia, had a large garden and loggia at the back, which housed theemperor Arrigo VII in 1312 (now buried in the Cathedral). Around 1350, the palace was sold to the Gambacorti, a powerful Pisan family and a few years later, in January 1355, it hosted another emperor: Charles IV. In the same year, the Gambacorti were expelled from the city and the building set on fire. The current appearance of the façade is the result of a restoration carried out in 1913, which recovered the fourteenth-century style, given by two superimposed floors of multi-light windows supported by slender columns of white marble under an imposing wooden cornice. Together with Palazzo Gambacorti del Lungarno, the two buildings represent a modern evolution of the tall tower houses that characterised the profile of the maritime city.
