The church of St. Sisto was built in Cortevecchia in 1087, soon after the Pisan conquest of the Al Mahdiya emporium inTunisia. Here, the military victories of the Pisan Republic are celebrated, on a date when many of them occurred, 6th August, in...
The Church, dedicated to St. Catharine of Alexandria, was built in the early 13th century, but it was with the Dominicans (1222) that the building and annexed convent took shape as they are today. The hall-shaped, double-pitched gabled building...
The Domus Galilaeana is a cultural foundation in Pisa, on via Santa Maria, devoted to the history of science and to Galileo Galilei. More than a museum, it is a large library with scientists' archives: if you love documents you will enjoy it, if...
The Church and adjoining convent belonged to the enclosed order of Dominican nuns. Following damage to the building during the second world war, the nuns moved to the monastery of S. Domenico Nuovo (in via Uguccione della Faggiola) taking with...
The church was founded in about 1118 by Benedictine monks from Montecassino, who remained in possession until 1270, when it became a priory. In 1331 it passed to Dominicannuns who used part of the Church for worship.
The Rococo facade,...
This Church, documented since 1086, in 1132 was an Agustinian canonical cure. From 1472 to 1808, when the convent was suppressed, it belonged to Augustinian Domenican nuns of via Romea, In 1819 the building was opened once more for worship and...
The earliest mention of this Church, today used for amateur dramatics, is in 1104. It stood immediately east of the early medieval civitas, in an area that developed rapidly in the 12th century.
The front is in dressed stone blocks with a...
This Church, first called S. Pietro, is mentioned in documents from 1116. In the second half of the 12th century it is documented as S. Pietro a Ischia (ad insula) and in the late 13th century is under the patronage of the Galletti family, who...
The earliest mention of a Church dedicated to St. Christina is in an 8th century AD index of documents, but only after the year 1000 is it reported to be in the Chinzica area, south of the River Arno. From documents in the early Middle Ages we...
The Scuola Superiore S. Anna has occupied this building since 1987; Benedictine nuns, originally from S. Paolo di Pugnano (1086), who had moved to this convent (known at the time as S. Anna al Renaio) in 1275, began building it and the church of...
The statue of Cosimo I de' Medici stands in the middle of Knights' Square of Pisa, just in front of Palazzo della Carovana.
It was commissioned by Grand Duke Ferdinando I in 1596 to the Franco-Flemish sculptor Pietro Francavilla, who...
San Rocco is a small church facing the Piazza dei Cavalieri. A church of San Pietro in Cortevecchia is found in documents from 1028. In 1575, a near complete reconstruction occurred when the church was granted to the Company (Order) of Saint Roch...
The palace occupies the whole western part of the square and makes a corner with Via Corsica street.
The palace, located near to the Church of St Rocco, was built in the present form between 1549 and 1598, by joining a group of three previous...
The chapel is first mention of in 1132. Built close by the church of S. Paolo a Ripa d’Arno, its connections with this building lasted until the 16th century, when it was handed to the Benedictine lay sisters from the nearby convent.
The...
The Church stands on the site of the Church of St. Salvatore mentioned in 1102 as “in Porta Aurea” because it was built close to the ancient pre-comunal southern Porta Aurea city gate. The present church was built by its patrons, the...
Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti and built by Cosimo Pugliani, between 1603 and 1605, by will of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando I de’Medici, the Logge di Banchi were the place of the wool and silk market, money changers’ stalls and the...
The Archbishop’s Palace today is the result of renovations under the prelate Philip de’ Medici (mid 15th century) by the architects Francione and Baccio Pontelli, who created the inner courtyard surrounded by white marble columns.
The...
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...
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...
Recent archaeological excavations have revealed that Giardino Scotto area (that has not always been a park) underwent many changes. Because it was alongside the main via Aemilia Scauri, road it was probably already partially inhabited in Roman...
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...
This is is a complex system of funeral monuments centering on a large tumulus or mound measuring thirty metres across. Around it, beyond a circle of steles (stones) are simpler burials inside small dolias (vases) positioned directly on the ground...
The Domus Mazziniana is situated in Palazzo Nathan-Rosselli, where Giuseppe Mazzini died in 1872. The building was declared a National monument on 20 March 1910, but was completely destroyed during bombing in 1943. Although the original furniture...
These premises, once the town slaughterhouse, were entirely renovated in the second half of the 1990s and now house the Museo degli Strumenti per il Calcolo (Museum of calculating machines). This important museum marks Pisa as one of the...
The square was inaugurated in1833; it was built by will of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to a design by the architect Alessandro Gherardesca. The almost perfectly rectangular space was planned according to the new requirements of town planning and...
The place-name Fossabandi, now changed to "Fossabanda", derives from a ditch, dug during the middle ages to drain the marshes in the northwestern area just outside the city. The ditch, already mentioned in 1034, took its name from Bando, who...
The city gate and walls at Largo Parlascio were built in 1157 as part of the 4th construction lot of the medieval city walls. Porta Parlascio takes its name from a place-name probably of Longobard origin that indicated the north east area of the...
Before being redesigned by the Lorena family, this square was named after the church of St. Nicholas. As far back as could be remembered, it had been the place where a particular ball game “palla con il bracciolo” was played, enthusiastically...
During the reign of Cosimo I de’ Medici a canal was dug from Porta a Mare in Pisa to the Fortezza Vecchia at Livorno in order to connect the port at Livorno with Florence and the hinterland via the river Arno.
Planned in 1541, it was 22 km...
Medieval building dating back to the eleventh or twelfth centuries, built as tower-house, with the masonry still visible, characterized by square blocks on the first two floors and a simple brick material on the third floor. The openings are...
The spa at Porta a Lucca, traditionally known as terme or "Bagni di Nerone", are situated in what must have been the north-western sector of the town in Roman times, now just inside the medieval walls between the S. Zeno Abbey and Cathedral. The...
The name of this Church comes from the battle of Montecatini (1315) during which German soldiers died fighting on the side of the Pisans. In their honour, a German confraternity founded this Church in 1317, and decorated it with the arms of the...
The Church of S. Martino in Chinzica is first mentioned in 1066; it stood on the Carraia Maiore, the most important roadway entering Pisa from the south, today called via S. Martino.
The Church is hall-shaped, with a short transept. It was...
The Church of Saints Ranieri and Leonardo, designed by Paolo Folini, was built between 1865 and 1868 to replace the 16th century Church of the same name in Piazza del Duomo. It is on a street that was built to enhance Piazza dei Miracoli, a...
The Church and adjacent convent, belonging to the Frati Umiliati, were founded between 1254 and 1278. In 1584 the construction passed to the Friars of S. Francesco di Paola, who conducted it until suppression in 1784. Later (until 1808), the...
The Church of S. Cecilia was founded in 1102 by Camaldolese monks from the nearby Church of St. Michael in Borgo, on land donated by the Visconti family. It was consecrated in 1107 by Bishop Pietro.
The interior is a single aisle with a...
This Church faces the square of the same name, on the left side of the street now called corso Italia, but which was once via S. Gilio. The church was founded by Carmelite monks in 1325, and both it and the adjoining monastery underwent radical...
Founded in 1530, this church, belonging to the Gesuate sisters of Lucca, was consecrated in 1572. It was the first building of a convent completed in 1534. The building was completely restructured and greatly modified Between 1707 and 1710 under...
The Church and adjoining convent, belonging to Benedictine nuns, were begun in about 1027 and were built on the foundations of a earlier church. During the following century the church was enlarged but was partially demolished in about 1350....
The church and nunnery were built by Benedictine nuns from S. Paolo at Pugnano, near Pisa, beginning in 1407. They had first moved to S. Anna al Renaio in 1275 and from there to S. Maria di Barbaricina.
The Church, consecrated in 1427, was...