The museum space at Palazzo Gambacorti presents a provisional layout specifically dedicated to the challenge of the Gioco del Ponte, between the Mezzogiorno and Tramontana sides.
The layout has a multimedia section dedicated to the Luminara, and the completion of the two sections devoted to the Palio di San Ranieri and the Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics.
On display are many elements of the history and tradition of the Gioco del Ponte, including insignia, flames, drums, targoni, morions, paintings, historical costumes from the 18th century and the 1935 edition, and illustrative panels of the city’s four medieval quarters.
The exhibition also presents two models, both created in 2003 on the occasion of the conference ‘Pisa and the Mediterranean’ by Franco Gizdulich and recently restored. The first represents ‘Terzana’ in Pisa in the 13th-15th centuries, where from 1200 onwards and throughout the period of maximum splendour of the Pisan navy, the republican naval arsenals were located with several dozen porticoes for storing galleys. The second, on the other hand, represents ‘mediaeval Pisa’ and is a precious testimony to what the
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