In a few miles many jewels of Tuscany to be discovered: this is “Terre di Pisa”. Beyond the Leaning Tower, the Miracles’ Square and the riversides you can discover Volterra, land of Etruscans and alabaster stone, or San Miniato on the Pilgrim Road to Rome and town of the white truffle.
A golden triangle in which less famous villages and hamlets are interwoven, surprising for their genuine beauty. The “Terre di Pisa” give you true experiences and unexpected emotions in an extremely varied territory which from the seaboard touches the Arno plain and rises up to gentle rolling hills, low mountains or rough rocky gullies. A rich artistic and natural heritage, in which flavors and pleasures of good food and drink are combined in a blend of tradition and innovation.
San Giuliano Terme | Pugnano
Pugnano is located along the old Lungomonte road connecting Pisa and Lucca. The first attestation of the locality dates back…
Volterra | Baptistry of San Giovanni
The Baptistery was built in the 13th century, although some architectural and decorative elements would date it to an earlier…
Calci | The Monumental Charterhouse
The Charterhouse of Pisa is part of the state museums as the National Museum of the Monumental Charterhouse of Calci.…
San Miniato | Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
The Cathedral of San Miniato, or the Cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta and San Genesio (XII century), overlooks the…
San Giuliano Terme. Asciano | The Medici Aqueduct
The Medici Aqueduct stretches itself in the Valle delle Fonti , which takes its name from the many spring waters…
Pontedera | Murale “Enrico Baj Wall”
The wall, inaugurated in 2006, is the last work of the artist Enrico Baj, founder of the “Nuclear” movement, founded…
Buti | Parich Church of San Giovanni
The Parish Church of San Giovanni Battista is located in Piazza Martiri della Libertà, in Buti. In the Middle Ages,…
Santa Maria a Monte | Astronomic Observatory
The observatory, run by the Isaac Newton Association, has an environmental laboratory and a large garden equipped for astronomy with…
Pontedera, La Rotta | The Brickmaker Museum
The history of the small museum of brickmakers is closely linked to the manufacture of bricks and the furnaces that…
Marina di Pisa, Retoni at Boccadarno
A few kilometres from Pisa and the central Piazza dei Miracoli, towards the sea, we find small palafittes that could…
Pisa | The “Easter Pancake” (Schiacciata)
The “schiacciata di Pasqua” (Easter Schiacchiata) is a Tuscan sweet bread flavored with anise seeds and orange. The dish was…
Capannoli – Santo Pietro Belvedere
Santo Pietro Belvedere, the only hamlet in the municipality of Capannoli, stands on a hill whose highest point is the…
Castelfranco di Sotto | Montefalcone Reserve
The Montefalcone Natural Reserve represents the area of greatest environmental interest in the Cerbaie Hills, in the lower Valdarno between…
Casciana Terme | Churches of Assunta and S. Martino
The existence of a church dedicated to St Mary is already mentioned in documents from the year 840, regarding a…
Santa Croce sull’Arno | Villa Pacchiani
The Villa Pacchiani Centre for Expressive Activities, the former private home of Geremia Pacchiani, has three floors with a garden…
Volterra | The Camaldolese Abbey
In addition to its monuments and numerous testimonies of art and history, Volterra offers a marvellous panorama of the hilly…
Terricciola | The Abbey of Morrona
Count Ugone, a rich and powerful landowner, founded the Abbey or Abbey of Morrona near Terricciola in 1089. His land…
Bientina | Etruscan Museum and of Ancient History
The Museum of Ancient History and Territory in the deconsecrated church of San Girolamo was established in 1999 in memory…
Pisa | Tower House of Conte Ugolino
The museum space “Tower of Count Ugolino” is located inside the Palazzo dell’Orologio in Piazza dei Cavalieri. The visitor is…
Volterra | Toscano medieval Tower House
In the historic centre you will come across many tower-houses, the dwellings of the most important families in the Middle…
Casciana Terme Lari | Collemontanino
The former castle of Collemontanino, of which only a few remains today, such as the large rectangular watchtower and ruins…
Terricciola | Sanctuary Madonna di Monterosso
On the road from Terricciola to Chianni we find the Sanctuary of the Immaculate Conception, also known as the ‘Madonna…
Pisa | The tomb of the Etruscan Prince
It is the oldest monument in Pisa, outside the city, a sepulchral complex centred on the tomb of a “noble”…
Pontedera | The hamlet of Treggiaia
The village of Treggiaia stands in the hills a few kilometres from Pontedera. Its origins seem to date back to…
San Giuliano Terme | Rigoli
Rigoli was built in the early Middle Ages, in a period before the eighth century, given the presence of the…
Peccioli | Libbiano
Libbiano is a small agricultural village located on a rise at the confluence of the Rio Melagio and Rio Polonia.…
Calci and Vicopisano| The “Verruca” Fortress
The Fortress or Rocca della Verruca (537 metres) dominates the plain crossed by the river Arno. The Eye of the…
Capannoli, Sanctuary of the SS Annunziata
Just outside the village of Capannoli, this Sanctuary is an interesting architectural complex dating back to the 15th century. The…
Buti | Teatro Francesco Di Bartolo
The ‘Francesco di Bartolo’ Theatre was founded in 1842, when a group of wealthy families joined together in an association…
Pisa | Palazzo Reale National Museum
Palazzo Reale has been over the centuries the residence of three dynasties in Pisa: Medici, Lorraine and Savoy. Historical and…
Crespina Lorenzana | Cenaia and the vines
The name Cenaia seems to derive from the Latin caenum ‘mud’ and Cenaja or Cenaria would have indicated the marshy…
Castelnuovo VDC, Montecastelli P| Museum
The Museum of Rural Life of Montecastelli Pisano was born in 1985 with the aim of documenting the agricultural and…
Vecchiano | The beach of Marina di Vecchiano
Marina di Vecchiano, a sandy coastline north of the Arno’s mouth, lies in the heart of the Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli Nature…
Pisa | Museum of the Ancient Ships
In 1998 during works near the Pisa San Rossore train station, an impressive series of shipwrecks emerged in an exceptional…
Bientina | Villa “Pacini Battaglia”
The historic Villa of the Pacini Battaglia family, built in the late eighteenth century, has always been privately owned. It…
Cascina | Parish Church of Santa Maria
Near the main street (Corso Matteotti) stands a remarkable example of Pisan Romanesque style: the Parish Church of San Giovanni…