/ URBAN ARCHITECTURE
/ Le Piagge and San Michele degli Scalzi
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]The name comes from the use, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of the river banks as beaches equipped with bagnetti, small wooden constructions used for undressing and wearing swimwear. From…
/ Bastione del Barbagianni and parco delle Concette
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3904 e 3906[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]After the violent bombardments with heavy cannonballs by the army of King Louis XII, in an attempt to help the Florentine troops during the siege of Pisa in 1503, the walls of Pisa were…
/ Piazza Martiri della Libertà and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The square was born at the behest of Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Habsburg-Lorraine and is the work of architect Alessandro Gherardesca, who also signed the base of the statue of Grand Duke of Tuscany…
/ Piazza delle Vettovaglie
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3906[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO] The sixteenth century market, today renowned for its local gastronomy and university nightlife[/SOMMARIO] [CORPO] In medieval times it was known as piassa de’ Porci, located in a very lively…
/ Piazza dei Cavalieri
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3901 e 3906[/ITINERARI] [CORPO]In the Middle Ages, when this was the Piazza delle Sette Vie (Square of the Seven Roads), since this was the number of roads that converged here, the square was overlooked by the Palazzo degli…
/ Piazza delle Baleari
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]TUTTI[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]Bruno and Gillo Pontecorvo brothers Terrace [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]A spacious terrace overlooking the sea that opens on one side of Piazza delle Baleari. The terrace was named after two of the numerous…
/ Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3904[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]A meeting place, the real gateway to the city: bars, shops and a large pedestrian area[/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]The square is dominated by the statue of Vittorio Emanuele II, sculpted by Cesare Zocchi and…
/ Torre sant’Agnese (St. Agnes Tower) and Manifatture Digitali Cinema (Digital Manufactures Cinema)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3904 e 3907 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO] The only original tower of the walls of Pisa and place of film productions [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]The Stallette, nineteenth-century structures that housed the first public slaughterhouses (later…
/ Piazza del Duomo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3902 e 3904[/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]Strolling through the Middle Ages in Piazza dei Miracoli[/SOMMARIO] [CORPO]L’Ardea roteò nel cielo di Cristo, sul prato dei Miracoli (Ardea rotated in the sky of Christ, on the meadow of…
/ Lungarno Mediceo, near piazza Mazzini
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI] 3907 [/ITINERARI] [SOMMARIO]The Taviani brothers, a light in Italian cinema [/SOMMARIO] [CORPO] We meet the Taviani brothers several times in this itinerary, because some of their films were shot in Pisa: in Piazza del Duomo,…