Pisa Tourism - Travel to Pisa
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Italy with a population of some 90,000 people.
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Understand Pisa Tourism
Pisa is best known for the world famous Leaning Tower, but those who come here with their mind already made up that the Tower is the only thing to see here may miss the other architectural and artistic marvels of this beautiful city.The long walk from the Campo di Miracoli to the train station is along a pedestrian mall with many interesting sights, shops, and restaurants.
Get into Pisa
Pisa has regular trains from Florence, and is also accessible by bus and has an airport
Get around in Pisa
There are regular buses around town, including from the train station to the Field of Miracles. Attractions are within a half hour walk of each other.
See Pisa
- The Campo dei Miracoli or Field of Miracles is to the north of central Pisa and contains its most famous sights:
- Leaning Tower Originally the cathedral's bell tower, construction began in 1173 and began leaning due to subsidence of the ground underneath it soon after. A project to keep the tower from leaning more and tipping over finally reached a successful conclusion in 2001, and the tower is again open to those wish to climb it.
- Duomo di Pisa, the splendid Cathedral, contains artwork by Giambolna, Dela Robbia, and others
- Baptistry large round Romanesque dome with more sculptured decorations and a fine view up top; climb this if you want a great view with the Leaning Tower visible in your photos
- Campo Santo a the huge cemetery building with much interesting art, including a collection of ancient Roman sculptures and splendid pre-Renaissance murals by the "Master of the Triumph of Death".
- Museo del Opera del Duomo has sculptures and paintings formerly in the Pisa Cathedral. Some of the more unusual are bronze griffins from Syria captured by the Crusaders.
- Museo de Sincope Skipped over by many visitors, this museum is a treat for art lovers. After WWII many of the surviving murals and pieces of murals from Pisa's Campo Santo were detached from the walls to try to preserve them. It was unexpectedly discovered that the artist sketches underneath survived. These were moved to this museum.
- Santa Spina small Gothic church built to house a thorn from Jesus's crown
- Piazza dei Cavalieri old town square with government palace with elaborate facade
- Lungarno Mediceo
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Pisa is often visited as a day trip from Florence or sometimes Lucca, but offers pleasant accomdations within the city.
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