What to see in Pisa

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Synagogue

The Synagogue stands close to the city centre, near the Teatro Verdi and the church of S. Andrea. It was inaugurated in September 1595, and is still used for worship. Jews are known to have been in Pisa at least since the end of the 14thcentury...
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Casino of the Nobles

The Casino dei Nobili was built in mid 18th century for the delight of the aristocracy. In those days Pisa and the Baths at San Giuliano were internationally famed resorts for tourists. The dances, gaming, receptions and occasions for genteel...
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The Limonaia

The Limonaia behind palazzo Ruschi is a typical example of a construction built as part of a large garden “all’italiana”, designed in the 19th century Neoclassical style.

The garden of the palazzo is recorded in a survey by Pietro Cancelli...
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Moscow Palace

The building on the Lungarno known as Palazzo Mosca is a combination of several towers. The oldest, dating from the end of the 12th century is the one with free-standing pilasters built on the façade entirely of stone, coupled at the top by a...
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Palazzo Salviati

The 14th century coats of arms that decorate the facade of this palazzo belonged to the first owners, the Ciampolini family, very rich Pisan merchants. In the mid 1400s, the Salviati family bought the building and installed a branch of their...
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Torre del Campano

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...
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Ex Teatro Redini

The theatre, inaugurated in the autumn of 1901 in the quarter of San Martino not far from the Church of S. Bernardo, took its name from the founder, Giuseppe Redini. Born to a family of farmers from near Mantua, he became a well-known orthopedic...
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Green Theater

On 12th November 1867 the city of Pisa inaugurated the Regio Teatro Nuovo, situated in a part of town where the street plan and sanitary arrangements had recently been modernized. The idea of a new theatre for the town had been circulating since...
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Canonica

In 1567 Cosimo I donated the medieval buildings standing between via Ulisse Dini and via S. Frediano to provide quarters for the Knight-priests, an important and influential division of the Order of Knights of St. Stephen.
Giorgio Vasari was...
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Wisdom

Although the University of Pisa began in the 13th century, it did not have a home. It was officially founded on 14th September 1343, when it was recognised by Bull of Pope Clement VI.

After an interruption caused by the Florentine conquest...
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Palazzo Alliata

During the 11th and 12th centuries the area of Chinzica, where this palazzo stands, was a rapidly growing quarter of town and many tower houses were built here. The 13th century was a time of population and building expansion and there was a race...
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Palazzo Lanfreducci (to the Day) - Rectorate

Now the home of Pisa University Chancellorship, this is one of the most interesting early 18th century buildings in Pisa. It was designed by Cosimo Pugliani, a Florentine architect connected to the Court who designed many adaptations in Pisa....
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Palazzo Pretorio

The Government building or palazzo Pretorio, Headquarters of the Government Auditor and the Civil and Criminal Chancery, was one of the buildings involved in the process of renovation undertaken in the 18th and 19th centuries, that aimed to alter...
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Red Theater

The theatre was built by Orazio Cecconi in 1770, under the guidance of the architect Zanobi del Rossoand the engineer Bombicci. It replaced the old Stanzone degli Stravaganti theatre in Banchi, by then too small.
Construction was financed by...
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New door

The gate was opened in the existing medieval walls by the then Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de 'Medici in 1562 and is known as "Nuova" (new) since it is more recent than the original Lion's Gate and Porta Santa Maria as access way to the Piazza del...
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Lion's Gate

Dating back to the twelfth century, it was one of two gates originally used by famous people and official representatives to access the city (the other was the Gate of Parlascio). Leading directly to the religious center of the city, the gate was...
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Porta San Zeno

Porta San Zeno is a gate in the ancient walls of Pisa, located near the church of San Zeno. It was once known as "Porta Monetaria" since it was close to the mint that produced all the coins of Pisa.

The gate was re-opened in 1935 to ease...
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Porta Garibaldi (or Calcesana)

Porta Calcesana, with superstructures dual-pointed arch, is one of the ancient gates in the walls of Pisa, dating back 1156. Its name comes from the road that led to Calci.

Over the centuries, the gate was closed, but in 1916 it was...
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Piagge Avenue

The Viale delle Piagge is an avenue located in the eastern suburbs of Pisa, along the right bank of the Arno River, near the ancient Porta a Piagge.

Around 1920, in front of the river, some bathing facilities were built by a private...
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Palazzo Cevoli

Located between Via San Martino and Vicolo del Moro, Cevoli Palace was built in the fourteenth century by combining three buildings of the twelfth or thirteenth century, already separated from little lanes. These were the homes of the Della...
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Door to Lucca

Overlooking the square of the Baths of Nero, it is one of the gates in the walls of Pisa. It was opened by the Florentines during their domination in the second half of the sixteenth century to replace the nearby prestigious Porta al Parlascio,...
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Torre De Cantone

La Torre de Cantone (or "Gaetani" or "Della Verga d'Oro") is located between Via Santa Maria and Via San Nicola and is connected by an arch over the road with the Palazzo delle Vedove and through another arch, to the church of St....
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Tower of Sant'Agnese

It is a tower located in the ancient walls of the city, close to Via Nicola Pisano. 
Probably built in the late thirteenth century, the building has a squared base and a massive structure made with stone blocks and bricks.


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Tower of Santa Maria

The Tower of Santa Maria is the most famous of the towers of the ancient walls of Pisa, due to the fact it closes the northwest side of the fortifications at the famous Piazza del Duomo. 

Its construction dates back to 1155-1161, with...
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Palazzo Poschi

The complex consists of two structures built at different times and with different styles: an old tower of the eleventh or twelfth century, and a XV century building resting on a porch along Borgo Stretto.

The tower-like structure has a...
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Palazzo delle Vedove

The palace, built in the 12th–14th centuries, is sited land which in antique times was the domus of the Bocci family of Pisa. Detail of the medieval edifice can still be seen in the exterior, including a marble quadruple mullioned window...
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Casa Tizzoni

Tizzoni House is a medieval building in Pisa, located in San Martino.
The original building dates back to the twelfth or thirteenth century: so old are the pillars and the shelves made with verrucana stone that still can be seen on the facade....
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Palazzo delle Poste

The Post Office building project has been selected in a competition launched in 1924 by the city council and won by the engineers Severini and Buoncristiani. The monument was built in just four years. Simultaneously with the construction of the...
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University Antiquarium Museum of Archaeology

The Antiquarium includes a collection of artifacts of different ages and backgrounds, set up as a support for university teaching by Professor Silvio Ferri in the 50s. It comprises about 1500 artefacts that represent a comprehensive overview of...
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University's Egyptological Collections

Egyptological collections of the University of Pisa originated in 1962, thanks to a first donation made ​​by Laura Birga Picozzi, a descendant of the family of Ippolito Rosellini, the Pisan pupil of J.-F. Champollion, considered as the father of...
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Paleoethnological Collections

Palethnological and paleontological collections originate from the collection Regnoli, Pisan physician who in 1867 conducted the first excavations of the prehistoric caves of Versilia and Mount Pisano. To these finds a number of materials from...
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Museum of Ancient Art

The University of Pisa collection of plaster casts was initiated by Gherardo Ghirardini, professor at Pisa University and an important Italian archaeologist in post-unification cultural circles (1887).
It was originally intended as an...
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Museum of the Order of the Knights of St. Stephen

The museum - divided into two rooms - is located in a medieval building, formerly the seat of the 'Council of the Twelve' Order of St. Stephen. The collections include a model of a galley of the Stefaniana Navy, numerous coats of arms of boats of...
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Lungarno Fibonacci

The Lungarno Fibonacci is the riverbank close to the fortress of San Gallo and Scotto garden. The fortress was built at the time of the domination of Florence, in the fifteenth century, and it was probably designed by F. Brunelleschi. In the...
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Lungarno Buozzi

In the nineteenth century, following a city beautification project the Lungarno Mediceo was extended into a public promenade (now lungarno Buozzi). This was accomplished by creating a square, the current Piazza F. Del Rosso and the demolition of...
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Lungarno Simonelli

The area of the Lungarno Simonelli is dominated by a tower of the thirteenth century, an ancient fortress built on the riverbank of the Arno by Florentines in 1405, close to the arsenal of the Pisan navy which communicated with the sea through...
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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...
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Grilletti Square

A walk through Chinzica, the part of the city south of the river, takes you through narrow alleyways and some wider streets that follow the paths of medieval carraie, streets wide enough for carts.
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Former Church of St. Bernard

The Church of S. Bernardo was built in the 1400s, on the site of the old Osnello hospital (named after the founder) first mentioned in 1189. Constructed on one of the most ancient streets in this part of Pisa, it was intended to shelter pilgrims...
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SMS - San Michele degli Scalzi Exhibition Center

Built on the site where the Richard Ginori ceramics factory once stood, adjoining the church of S. Michele degli Scalzi, the SMS exhibition center was planned to enhance this part of the city to the west of the town where, more than elsewhere,...