Pisa Holiday
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa © Italian Tourist Board |
Overview: The holiday destination of Pisa is most famous for its leaning
campanile, yet its other equally notable coups include its long
maritime legacy dating to 1000 BC, its prized university and its
status as the birthplace of the world's greatest physicist and
astronomer, Galileo Galilei. The Pisans also created one of the
most beautiful squares in the world in the Campo dei Miracoli
(Field of Miracles).
Pisa's key component is the famous Leaning Tower, whose layers of
heavy marble were constructed on a shifting subsoil foundation that
has been the bane of Pisan engineers for more than 800 years, an
essential holiday attraction. It seems that the tremulous soil
underneath the Field of Miracles has exacted its price on the other
buildings too, most notably San Michele dei Scalzi.
Other attractions of interest in Pisa include the Museo delle
Sinopie, a museum containing a display of sketches from the
frescoed cycle that decorated the walls of the Campo Santo
cemetery, and the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in which exhibits of
arabesque panels and Corinthian capitals reveal the influences of
Rome and Islam on Pisan architects. The Museo Nazionale di San
Matteo displays a range of Florentine art from the 12th through to
the 17th centuries.
Explore the gems of Italy on foot or by bike with a small
intimate group of like-minded adventure seekers.
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