PIAZZA DEI MIRACOLI
SQUARE - INTRODUCTION
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This square is one of the world's most concentrated areas of artistic masterpieces! This group of marble monuments has universally been made famous by the presence of the Leaning Tower. You should...
SQUARE - HISTORY
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Before describing the monuments one by one, I'd like to briefly tell you about their history so that you can orient yourself and choose your own path to take, perhaps considering the presence of other...
LEANING TOWER
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54 meters tall, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is undoubtedly one of the most famous monuments on the planet, and a true icon of Western architecture.
As you can imagine, part of its fame naturally comes...
CATHEDRAL EXTERIOR
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Completely isolated, Pisa's Cathedral stands on a large platform with stairs, like the temples of antiquity. Thus you can walk entirely around it, which I strongly recommend doing, to observe its...
CATHEDRAL INTERIOR
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Welcome to the interior of Pisa's Cathedral, with its five naves divided by rows of Corinthian columns. The two loggias you see at the upper part of the naves are known as matroneums, or women's...
BAPTISTERY EXTERIOR
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And now to head to the circular building that is directly opposite the Cathedral's façade. Built almost a century later in 1152, the Baptistery first strikes you for the harmony of its...
BAPTISTERY INTERIOR
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The first thing that strikes you once you enter the Baptistery is its sobriety: it lacks decorations, but certainly doesn't lack grandeur. The alternation of light and dark stripes of marble is...
CAMPOSANTO PRESENTATION
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If you look at it from the outside, Camposanto, or the Cemetery, that's on the north side is perhaps the least spectacular monument in Piazza dei Miracoli. In fact the façade facing the...
CAMPOSANTO FRESCOES
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Even before Camposanto's construction was finished, its interior walls began to be decorated with a long series of frescoes by some of the greatest artists of the time. You stand in what is certainly...
CAMPOSANTO THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH
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Life and death: these are the two major themes that the frescoes of the Cemetery have in common, and which will make them unforgettable. The most famous scenes of the cycle are definitely those...
SINOPIAS MUSEUM
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Of all the various treasures you can admire in Piazza dei Miracoli, there's one that the general public is barely familiar with that's actually quite fascinating: the Sinopias Museum.
It is an ancient...
