Pisa - Finestre sull'Arte

The lands of Pisa in the paintings of the Macchiaioli.

Landscape painting represents one of the most heartfelt subjects of the Macchiaiolo movement, which has left us pieces of great intensity on the genre that can testify to that new approach that the Tuscan group, proponents of a reborn realism, was ab...
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Pisa, what to see: 15 places not to miss

Pisa is a city that lives suspended between the past and the present: world-famous for its Leaning Tower, Pisa offers much more to its visitors than one can imagine. Situated along the banks of theArno River, Pisa was one of the four Maritime Republ...
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Marine colonies on the Pisan coast, from fascism to rebirth

Driving along the Pisan waterfront in Calambrone, that is, the last hamlet of Pisa before entering the municipal territory of Livorno, it is not uncommon to come across some recurring presences: the seaside colonies, which represent a fundamental cha...
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The crosses of the Museo di San Matteo in Pisa: the world's largest collection of painted crosses

Outside the classic Pisa sightseeing tour that features Piazza dei Miracoli with its Leaning Tower, the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, located on the Lungarno, in Piazza San Matteo in Soarta, in the spaces of theformer Benedictine Monastery of San Ma...
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The legend of Kinzica de' Sismondi, the heroine who saved Pisa

The legend of Kinzica de' Sismondi is one of the most fascinating and least known tales in medieval Italian history, although for the city of Pisa it has now almost reached the traits of founding myth. This tale takes us back in time, to 11th-century...
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Between science and legend, Galileo's experiment from the Tower of Pisa

The bell tower of the Primatial Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa, universally known as the Leaning Tower, is the symbol of the city and of Italy in general, its fame is boundless, and it is also said to have been the celebrated stage and labo...
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The resurfaced fleet. History of the extraordinary discovery of the ancient ships of Pisa

Pompey the Great 's maxim "navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse," with which he urged his sailors to put out to sea even though the sea was raging, is still well known. Over time it has been reused countless times as the motto of the Hanseati...
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When the San Rossore Park in Pisa was full of dromedaries.

In Gabriele d'Annunzio'sAlcyone , the dromedaries of San Rossore Park become, more simply, the "camels." An unusual presence in the Tuscan landscape, a gift from ancient times, animals that once populated the pine forests between Pisa and the sea. "T...
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