It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930 and 1940s. The airport had 4.526.723 passengers in 2011.
With Borgo Stretto this is the most crowded street for shopping in Pisa. Main chain stores are here.
Don't forget to come back at dark to see the monuments lighted by the white electric light. Stunning wiew!!
The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo contains the most important collections of paintings, archaeological finds and Pisan sculpture from the 12 to 15 century. The museum is in the convent of San Matteo.
The heart of the Piazza is the Duomo, the medieval cathedral, entitled to Santa Maria Assunta. This is a five-naved cathedral with a three-naved transept. The church is known also as the Primatial.
The Baptistery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, stands opposite the west end of the Duomo. It was built in Romanesque style in the mid 12th century. It is the largest baptistery in Italy.
The Museum of Sinopie is located in the Piazza del Duomo, in a specially restored wing of the Santa Chiara Hospital, built by Giovanni di Simone in 1257.
From the Courtyard you get a gorgeous view of the tower without all the people.
The Tower of Pisa is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square.
It is the first basilica (Dominican church). The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a store of art treasures and funerary monuments. Frescoes by masters of Gothic & Renaissance.
Symbolism, theology, beauty – the Spanish chapel in Santa Maria Novella has it all, so make room on your next jaunt to this side of the city.
Piazza del Duomo is located in the heart of the historic center of Florence. It is one of the most visited places in Europe and the world. The west zone of this square is called San Giovanni square.
Home of Michelangelo's late-era Pieta (and, for my money, much more moving than the earlier one found in Rome).
The Central Market (or Lorenzo's Market) is one of the results from the time of risanamento, the period when Florence was the capital of Italy in the late nineteenth century. GOOD SHOPPING!
The Sacristy in here may be unfinished, but it's still one of Michelangelo's masterpieces and should not be missed.
14th Medici Chapels (Visitors: 300.536)The Medici Chapels are made up of the Chapel of the Princes as well as the New Sacristy, a grandiose Michelangelian work.
Good Museum San Marco beside the church! It is housed in what was the cloisters of the monastery, taken over in 1437 by the Dominican order and funded by Lorenzo de Medici. The quarters of University.
It is a wide square located near Piazza Stazione and San Lorenzo Market, with palaces typically bourgeois where lived Guido Nobili and Theodosia Gorrow Trollope wife of the writer Anthony Trollope.
It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed in 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels.
Standing adjacent the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry of St. John, the tower is one of the showpieces of the Florentine Gothic architecture with its design by Giotto.
Visitors to Florence often skip a visit inside the building - wrong! It is wonderful: the mosaics on the ceiling, begun in the early 1200’s, are stunning. Dante refers to it as 'il mio bel San Giovann
It is on the site, first of the city's forum and then of the city's old ghetto, which was swept away during the city improvement works, when Florence was the Capital of Italy. VERY BEAUTIFUL!
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains the political hub of the city. Located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza Duomo and gateway to Uffizi.
This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. In front of the copy of David statue and the gallery of statues in adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
It is located near piazza della Signoria and the National Central Library and takes its name by the Basilica that overlook the square. GOOD NIGHTLIFE! A lots of nice bars, restaurants, pub, etc..
It is a Franciscan church. The site was in marshland out the city walls. It is the burial place of the most illustrious Italian such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Foscolo, Gentile, Rossini.
It is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, noted for still having shops built along it. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers and art dealers.
The Museum has a remarkable collection of sculpture and works of art.Collections of minor art objects and works and famous sculptures by Michelangelo, Cellini, Giambologna, Donatello and Della Robbia Read more.
La Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi, Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych, Flora, Venus of Urbino, Doni Tondo, Madonna of Goldfinch, Maestà, Bacchus, Sacrifice of Isaac, Medusa.
In the 18th century, the palazzo was used as a power base by Napoleon. It was donated to Italian people by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1919, and its doors were opened as one of largest art galleries.
get a bottle of wine and sit on one of the two triangles pointed towards ponte vecchio. a great place to enjoy florence and have a conversation with friends
The extraordinary contribution of academics including Michelangelo, Francesco da Sangallo, Bronzino, Cellini, Vasari, Ammannati, Giambologna, Uccello, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, etc...
Visitors to the beautiful San Marco monastery can enter Savonarola's cell where many of the sermons would have been written and can see the bell that called the Florentines to hear him speak.
The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti an ambitious banker. It was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became the chief residence.
11th Museal Circuit: Palatine gallery, Monumental Apartments in Pitti Palace, Modern art gallery (Visitors: 418.133) It houses many works by great sixteenth and seventeenth century painters Read more.
It is a park that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries with some Roman antiquities. The main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany. VERY BEAUTIFUL!
