Pisa
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Pisa is a city in Italy. About 85.000 people live in the city. The city has a very long and turbulent history. The "Leaning Tower of Pisa" is a famous landmark of Pisa.
Important buildings [change]
- The Leaning Tower, the most famous image of the city.
- Campo dei Miracoli (in English: "Square of Miracles") in the north of the old town center.
- Duomo di Pisa.
- The Baptistry.
- The Camposanto (The monumental cemetery of the city).
- Piazza dei Cavalieri, (the "Knights' Square" in English).
- Church o Santo Steano dei cavalieri,in the "Knights' Square".
- St. Sixtus,a small church.
- The church of St. Francis, designed by Giovanni di Simone, built after 1276. In 1343 new chapels were added and the church was elevated.
- Church of San Frediano, built by 1061.
- Church of San Nicola, built by 1097, was enlarged between 1297 and 1313
- The small church of Santa Maria della Spina,
- The church of San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno,
- Lungarno, the avenues along the river Arno.
- The Medici Palace, a building of the Appiano family, who ruled Pisa in 1392–1398. In 1400 the Medici acquired it, and Lorenzo de' Medici lived here.
- The Orto botanico di Pisa is Europe's oldest university botanical garden.
- The Palazzo Reale ("Royal Palace").
- Palazzo Gambacorti, a Gothic building of the 14th century.
- Palazzo Agostini, a Gothic building
- Museo dell'Opera del Duomo: where there are the original sculptures of Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano.
- Museo delle Sinopie: showing the sinopias from the camposanto, the monumental cemetery.
- Museo Nazionale di S. Matteo: exhibiting sculptures and painting from 12th century–15th century,of Giovanni and Andrea Pisano, the Master of San Martino, Simone Martini, Nino Pisano and Masaccio.
Famous people born in Pisa [change]
- Jason Acuña
- Guglielmo Agnelli
- Christian Amoroso
- Anselm of Capraia
- Gerardo Appiani
- Giovanni di Balduccio
- Iacopo Balestri
- Michele Bartoli
- Ercole Bazicaluve
- Alfredo Biondi
- Alessandro Birindelli
- Bona of Pisa
- Guido Buffarini Guidi
- Philippe Buonarroti
- Ulisse Dini
- Pope Eugene III
- Fibonacci
- Galileo Galilei
- Giovanni Galli
- Orazio Gentileschi
- Ugolino della Gherardesca
- Ignazio Hugford
- Enrico Letta
- Fabio Lione
- Dario Marianelli
- Francesco Marianini
- Giuseppe Melani
- Antonio Pacinotti
- Pandolfo Masca of Pisa
- Andrea Parola
- Giovanni Pisano
- Nino Pisano
- Bruno Pontecorvo
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Girolamo Riminaldi
- Orazio Riminaldi
- Titta Ruffo
- Rustichello da Pisa
- Paolo Savi
- Sidney Sonnino
- Marco Storari
- Antonio Tabucchi
- Terramagnino da Pisa
- Francesco Traini
- Soozie Tyrell
