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Pisa
Pisa is a city of the Tuscany region and counts approximately 90.000 inhabitants. Its world-wide notoriety the drift dall hanging Tower of Pisa that is the symbol of the city and it knows in one of the beautifulr and fantastic public squares of Italy, Public square of the Miracles. All this belongs to the period more glorious than Pisa, cioé in the first Middle Ages, when Pisa was a Republic Duffle-coat that controlled the traffics on the Mediteraneo Sea contendendo the supemazia to Genoa, Amalfi and Venice. In any case in the history of Pisa it avails again it for excellence has been always Florence, anch'essa on the Arno, anch'essa rich of culture and commerce. Pisa is sure a point of riferiemto Italian for the production of culture and formation, in fact the University exists, but above all two Advanced Schools exist: the Advanced Normal School and the Advanced School Sant'Anna. In these Schools that are between most exclusive where are entered for competition in closed number, the future classes are often formed managing of Italy. Pisa is small and the historical center is enclosed from the high ones walls. The first one I dazzle arriving for road is being looked at to orrizzonte the cupola of the Baptistry with to flank the Tower. Then entering in the public square Of the Miracles one is dazzle to you between the contrast of the green Prato that encircles the buildings and same of a lucente color the white man-gray. On foot from Public square Of the Miracles it is gone towards Public square of the Knights where the Palace of the Caravan rises whose facade has been designed from George Vasari. Currently it accommodates the Advanced Normal School. *In the same public square erge the Church of the Knights of Santo Stefano, also its of the Vasari. In origin navata had one single; the second one has been added in XVII the century. Inside we find a sculpture of Donatello and frescoes of the Vasari, Jacopo Ligozzi, Alexander Fei and Jacopo said Chimenti the Empoli. Then it is continued and it is gone towards the second wonder of Pisa that is the Lungarno Mediceo. Practically the river Arno is enclosed to left right and from an uninterrupted row of palaces, smaller churches, buildings such to seem one great street artery. Covering via Of Simone we arrive on the Lungarno Mediceo, where we find the church of Saint Matteo, Palazzo de' Doctors and the National Museum of Saint Matteo, accommodated Romanesque in the Benedictine monastero. Between the relief works a group of paintings from the XII to XVIII the century and one rich collection of sculptures of the school of the Pisano. The Church of Saint Francisco, planned from Giovanni di Simone, constructed after 1276. In the 1343 new nails head they have been added and the church has been elevated. To it is navata only and of remarkable interest they are the tower campanaia and the chiostro. It accommodates works of Jacopo from Empoli, Taddeo Gaddi and Knows you of Tito. In the Nail head of the Gherardesca they were locked up Ugolino of the Gherardesca and its sons. The church of Saint Frediano, mentioned before the time in 1061. It is a basilica to three navate and accommodates a crocifisso of XII the century. It frescoes are for the greater part restores to you in XVI the century, with jobs of Domenico Passignano, Aurelio Lomi and Rutilio Throttles. It carries out the function of university church today. As well as other remains to discover of Pisa between which the Marine neighbor of Pisa on the sea with the Tirrenia neighbor and the typical trattorie that as in other from Tuscany cities they offer to who is starved one tender and saporita bistick to the “cooked fiorentina” on the grill of some braciere.
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