PISA RICORDO
Souvenir Booklet
"32 Views"
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PISA RICORDO Souvenir Booklet "32 Views"
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Panorama of the Monuments, Offices, and Public Services (Inside Cover) Selected Views Below 
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with the Principal Monuments On the "Filed of Miracles" there are: The round Baptistery with the double dome (Diotisalvi of Pisa, 1153) The Cathedral (Buschetto, 1063) The Leaning Tower (Bonanno, 1174, Maestro Gillo, Tommaso of Pisa) The City Cemetery (Giovanni di Simone, 1278) The Pisa mountains are in the background, the lowest of which is "the mountain on account of which the people of Pisa cannot see Lucca" |
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One of the finest bell towers of the Middle Ages (1174 and the most characteristic as a leaning tower (54 meters high - displacement 4.3 meters) Galileo carried out the first experiments with falling bodies on this tower, which were the forerunners of the following triumphs in physical sciences. |
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The Cathedral was built in 1063 to celebrate the victory of the people of Pisa against the Saracens at Palermo. There was a villa of Emperor Adrian in the same place. Rainoldo, who built the facade and Buschetto, who built the Cathedral, were both local artists. The predominating style is Romatic with Eastern details. There is a Byzantine elliptic dome with a Gothis covered gallery at the side porch. |
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This is a NE section of the City, approximately one-fifth of its total extension, which includes the four divine monuments, framed by the embattled walls. The elegant engineering school, belonging to the famed Pisa University, can be seen in the foreground. In the backgournd, note the mountains "which prevent the Pisans from seeing Lucca", as Dante said in his poem. |
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