/ HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
/ La Casa dell'Ebreo, The Jew’s House
Situated near the Campano tower, the Casa dell’Ebreo (the Jew’s House) owes its name to the fact that it was inhabited almost without interruption from the late 14th century until the second half of the 16th century by families of rich Jewish…
/ Arsenali medicei
It was Cosimo I de' Medici’s idea to build a shipyard in Pisa for the vessels of the powerful Tuscan fleet. It was part of a wider scheme to restore Pisa to its ancient splendour, after its fall into disrepair following surrender to Florence in 1509…
/ Palazzo Gambacorti
This building, now the Town Hall, is the result of a long history of adaptations and additions that, archaeological investigations have shown, began in mid 11th century, when a casa torre (tower house) now incorporated into the south side of Palazzo…
/ Palazzo Giuli Rosselmini Gualandi - Palazzo Blu
In the late middle ages, the building that today is Palazzo Blu belonged to one of the most important families in the history of Pisa, the Dell’Agnellos, who lived in two tower houses side by side. In 1356 they decided to join these to another of…
/ Palazzo Lanfranchi
This palazzo takes its name from the Lanfranchi family who re-structured it and lived in it from 1539. The building is the result of amalgamating seven towers dating from the early 13th to the second half of the 14th centuries. The first merger was…
/ Citadel Tower and Old Citadel
The area of the medieval Tersana (darsena or shipyard) expanded during 13th century at the time when military victories and the flowering of overseas commerce made it necessary for the city to find a suitable site for naval purposes. Military…
/ Campano Tower and other medieval buildings
The most famous medieval building on Via Calvalca is the Torre dei Caciaioli, now known as Torre del Campano (from the bell that in the late 18th century summoned students to lectures at the university). This is a tall square building with pilasters…
/ Palazzo Vitelli
Like many other buildings along the Arno, Palazzo Vitelli is the result of uniting and partly demolishing several medieval case torri, built after the 11th century. The earliest case torri were made of stone but from the 13th century bricks were…
/ Palazzo Vecchio de’ Medici / Prefecture
The building, on Lungarno Mediceo began in the 11th century as a casa torre belonging to the nobleman Albizone (o Albitone). Over the centuries it had several owners: the Casapieri, the powerful Appiano family and after 1441, the Medici. In 1539…
/ Palazzo Toscanelli (once Lanfranchi), State Archives
Built in the first half of the 16th century by Bartolomeo Lanfranchi, this palazzo is situated directly opposite Palazzo Lanfranchi, built by his son Alessandro on the other side of the river. In 1505 Bartolomeo purchased a five-storey domus on the…