The St Matthew National Museum in Pisa is housed in the former 13th Century monastery of St Matthew. Visitors can view an array of 14th...

The church of San Francesco was founded in 1211; building continued between 1265 and 1270 and the work was completed in the early 14th Century....

The Ponte di Mezzo is a renovation of the most ancient bridge in the city of Pisa, which goes back to the Roman era. A...

The beautifully ornate church of Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa was built in the 13th Century on the bank of the Arno River. To...

The church of San Paolo a Ripa d’Arno that stands here today is in fact an accurate reconstruction. The original church was damaged by bombings...

The Church of San Zeno was erected on the site of a Roman church dating back to before the year 1000. It was built by...

The church of Santa Caterina has a façade of marble, fashioned in the style of the Pisa school. It has two Gothic loggias and an...

The Church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri was designed and built by architect Vasari in the latter half of the 16th Century. The interior has...

Two bridges once connected the church of San Nicola to the royal palace but only one remains today. The church was constructed during the 13th...

The arsenal is located to the west of the city and was built in 1264. This was the place for all naval activity in 13th...

The Republican armoury was turned into a fortress under the Florentines in the early 15th Century. It became known as the Old Citadel, to distinguish...

When Luca Ghini founded the Botanical Garden of the Pisa University in 1544 he was appointed medicine and botany professor by Cosimo I de’ Medici....

Pisa’s cathedral, situated in the ‘square of the miracles’, was built between the 11th and the 12th Century. The incredible Romanesque exterior has tiers of...

The Baptistery was designed by Diotisalvi in 1152 but it wasn’t completed until around a century later. Nicola Pisano who took on this great project,...

The Tower of Pisa is actually the freestanding bell tower of the cathedral and is the third structure in Pisa’s Campo dei Miracoli (field of...

On display in the Sinopias Museum in Pisa is a collection of fresco sketches. Housed in a wing of the old hospital, the sinopias, so-called...

The former Convent of the Capuchins now houses the Opera del Duomo Museum. On display is the treasure of the Duomo which includes precious illustrated...

The Monumental Graveyard (Campo Santo) in Pisa was built be Giovanni di Simone at the end of the 13th Century. The magnificent Romanesque rectangular creation...

The history of the villa is tempestuous. Isabella de’ Medici was believed to have been killed here by her husband, who suspected her of infidelity....