Pisa

The history

A maritime republic that rivalled Genoa and Venice — the leaning campanile is only the famous corner of a whole marble square of cathedral, baptistery and cemetery.

In brief

Pisa is a city and comune (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, and several medieval and Renaissance palaces, mostly facing each other on the avenues along the Arno ("Lungarno"). Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.

Then & now

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