Walls of Pisa Night Experience

Friday 25 April and Friday 2 May, Mura di Pisa Night Experience special World War II.

Walking cinema at night, sounds and images telling the passage of the conflict in the city: the excitement of the beginnings, the bomb raid on 31 August 1943, the resistance of the partisan brigade, the city divided in two by the Arno front, the Cathedral invaded by evacuees, the Nazi round-ups, up to 2 September 1944, the freedom of Pisa.

Departure at 9 p.m. from the Porta Pacis Piezometric Tower, arrival at approximately 10.30 p.m. in Piazza dei Miracoli, tickets cost 10 euro, free for accompanying persons with disabilities.

In September, on the other hand, the Walls of Pisa become the setting for the “Night Experience Classic”: night-time film tours with enthralling audio and video content that allow visitors to relive the history of Pisa from Roman times to medieval glories, from the industrial Pisa of the late 19th century to the present day. The cine-guides lead participants up the high walkway projecting videos on the façades and the Walls, and the monument itself will narrate various adventures: the church of San Zeno and the mystery of the disappeared Roman amphitheatre, the ingenious workings and splendours of the Roman baths, the story of one of Pisa’s first female entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Laura Ruschi, and of the San Zeno artistic ceramics factory, the Marzotto industrial epic from fascism to the social village, from the honorary degree to the statue destroyed by the riots