/ MUSEUMS
/ Museum of Calculation Instruments and Museum of Physics Instruments, in the old slaughterhouses
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3903 e 3904 e 3905 e 3908[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Vecchi Macelli (Old slaughterhouses) of Pisa, built at the end of the 19th century, but never completely used. The slaughterhouses were the largest structures, but there were also…
/ Domus Galilaeana
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3903 e 3905[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] On the occasion of the first centenary of the Congress of Italian Scientists held in Pisa, Giovanni Gentile promoted the opening of a centre for the collection of scientific studies, mainly…
/ Botanical Garden, via Luca Ghini
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3902 e 3903 e 3905 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] One of Cosimo I's greatest projects was to reform the Pisan educational system. The Botanical Garden, born as Giardino dei Semplici in 1543 created by naturalist Luca Ghini, is today the…
/ Medical School and Museums of Human and Pathological Anatomy
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3903 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The Pisan medical school was born with the University of Pisa, whose origins date back to at least the eighth century, although the papal bull In supremae dignitatis by Clement VI, who formalized its…
/ Opera della Primaziale museum
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3905 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The Opera della Primaziale museum: opened in 1987, it is a gallery of works of art related to the square, from the original statues by Busketo, Rainaldo, Guglielmo, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano…
/ Sinopie Museum
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3905 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Hospital of Santa Chiara, or new hospital of Santo Spirito, was born at the behest of Pope Alexander IV who, through a papal bull of 1258, imposed certain conditions for withdrawing the…
/ Paratrooper Museum, via di Gello
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3905 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Born in the Vannucci Barracks in Livorno, this small museum was transferred to the original place of Italian military parachuting, the Parachuting Training Centre of Pisa, at the Gamerra barracks in…
/ Royal Palace, Lungarno Pacinotti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3905[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The Royal Palace, or Granducale, stands on the area of the ancient palace of the Marquises of Tuscia and the tower houses of the wealthy Dodi and Caetani families. In 1583, the palace was…
/ Arsenals and Cittadella
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3901 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] Republican Arsenal and Citadella: a great water basin within the walls, dated 1160. The structure was impressive, so much so that King Alfonso IV of Aragon, when he commissioned the construction…
/ Palazzo Blu, lungarno Gambacorti
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3906 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The palace is one of the most characteristic of the Pisan Lungarno. Founded by Doge Giovanni dell'Agnello in 1356 over a pre-existing nucleus of tower houses dating from the 12th and 13th centuries (…