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Everyone
knows the Tower of Pisa, the city of Pisa is not just the Tower, nor the
marvellous Piazza dei Miracoli where it stands, with its Cathedral, Baptistery
and Monumental Cemetery. Pisa is many other things as well. It is the city of
the ancient Etruscan and Roman Port at San Rossore, one of the most recent and
important archaeological discoveries made yet.
It
is the city where the art of modern sculpture was born, and these valuable works
can be admired in the National Museum of San Matteo. Il is the city of the
Maritime Republic, thanks to the trading activities of which Leonardo Fibonacci
brought the Arabic number system to Italy and Europe, and it is the city of
medieval walls surrounding a historic centre rich in monuments and works of art
of extraordinary value, starting from Piazza dei Cavalieri. Pisa is one of most
famous university cities in the world, whit its ancient University, the Normal
High School , the School of Sant’Anna, the CNR laboratories.
It
is the city of the lungarni (the banks of the river Arno), much loved by
romantics poets for its climate and traditions of tolerance: from Byron to
Shelley, from Giacomo Leopardi to Alessandro Manzoni.
Pisa
is also a city strongly characterised by environmental treasures, fist of all
its Marina, a tourist place established during the years of Belle époque and
Liberty, and the Environmental Park of San Rossore, with its homonymous estate,
also know as a equestrian competition ground and breeding centre among the most
important in Europe. All this, and much else besides, mates Pisa a unique city
in the vast panorama of the so-called art cities, and it offers tourists and
visitors an infinite selection of attractions, from historic-artistic ones to
holidays.
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