Description
With Camposanto Monumentale tickets in Pisa you enter a calm walled graveyard from 1277 beside the Leaning Tower, built for Pisa's leading families and figures. Today it reads like an open-air gallery of art and history.
You start in the marble galleries, where Gothic arches let in the light and Roman sarcophagi stand beside carved tombs. On the inner walls are frescoes painted in the 1300s and 1400s, including Bonamico Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death and Last Judgement, scenes that echo Dante. Along the north wall, saints of Pisa and Old Testament scenes are the work of Benozzo Gozzoli, Spinello Aretino, Antonio Veneziano and Andrea Bonaiuti.
- Monuments to university professors and to the Medici
- The archaeological collection, with Roman inscriptions and finds from local excavations and former churches
- Access to the fresco galleries
- A digital audio guide app in four languages, English among them
The Camposanto has been a public museum since the 19th century, among the first in Europe. The visit ends in the quiet cloister. Wear comfortable shoes, as the marble can be slippery, and leave large bags in the cloakroom. Photos are allowed without flash. This is an entry ticket, not a guided tour.