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.
Volterra | Museum of Sacred Art
The Museum of Sacred Art, housed in the Church of Sant’Agostino, (Piazza XX settembre) displays a splendid collection of works…
The “Soccorso – Rescue” Tower and Walkway
The Tower and Walkway (Camminamento) del Soccorso (XV century) are part of the fortifications designed by Brunelleschi, and must be…
Peccioli | Church and Bell Tower of San Verano
The Bell Tower was built in 1885 by the architect Luigi Bellincioni, author of seven other bell towers in Valdera…
Santa Maria a Monte | Montecalvoli
The village of Montecalvoli (Santa Maria a Monte) is located on the southern end of the Cerbaie hills, almost overlooking…
Vecchiano, Avane | Climbing cliff (falesia)
The Avane crag is the ‘outdoor’ climbing gym for Tuscan climbers: it can also be climbed in the middle of…
Santa Maria a Monte | Fortress and tunnels
The area della Rocca (Fortress) constitutes the original nucleus of the medieval village of Santa Maria a Monte. The presence…
Casciana Terme | Casciana Alta, Madonna della Cava
Casciana Alta was once an important castle called Sessana, of which there were two parts: the one around the fortress…
Ponsacco | The Chiesina of San Pierino in Camugliano
If the Chiesina (little church) of San Pierino in Camugliano is one of the most photographed places in the Terre…
Santa Croce sull’Arno | Church of Santa Cristiana
The church was built on the site of a pre-existing 13th-century oratory dedicated to St Jacopo. Its current appearance is…
Ponsacco | Museum of Wood
The current site of the Wood Museum is located at Corso Matteotti 35 in the centre of Ponsacco. It is…
Lajatico | The Theatre of Silence
The Theatre of Silence in Lajatico is a unique place in the world, where nature and the Tuscan hills are…
Pisa | Egyptology Collections – Pisa University
The Egyptological Collections of the University of Pisa represent a point of reference for scholars and enthusiasts of archaeology and…
Pisa, Tirrenia | Aquapark “Sunlight”
The AcquaPark “Sunlight” is the multi aquatic park of Tirrenia. It is immersed in the pine forest and a stone’s…
Vicopisano | Via dell’Amore
Every year on February 14, Valentine’s Day, Via del Pretorio in Vicopisano is transformed into Via dell’Amore. The RouteThe route—which…
San Giuliano Terme, Ripafratta | The Fortress
The Rocca di San Paolino was a medieval historical-architectural complex of strategic military importance as a Pisan outpost in the…
Bientina | Villa “Pacini Battaglia”
The historic Villa of the Pacini Battaglia family, built in the late eighteenth century, has always been privately owned. It…
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…
Calci | Tenuta e Spuntone di Santallago
The private estate of Santallago at the top of the road from Calci to Monte Serra extends over a plateau…
Santa Luce | The Alabaster Eco-museum
Santa Luce is home to one of the three centres of the Alabaster Eco-museum, which also involves Castellina Marittima and…
Santa Maria a Monte | The Clock Tower
Next to the former Palazzo del Podestà stands the 6-metre high Clock Tower with a stone base. The tower was…
Pisa | Church of San Francesco
The first attestation of the Church of San Francesco dates back to 1233. Paintings, from Giotto to Cimabue The church,…
Pisa | Villa Medici in the Estate of Coltano
The Tenuta (estate) di Coltano occupies over 3,000 hectares within the Regional Park of San Rossore Migliarino Massaciuccoli, which originally…
Pisa | Church of San Michele degli Scalzi
There are records of a Church dedicated to S. Michele from the year 1025, but it was rebuilt with the…
Crespina | “Carlo Pepi” Art Collection
The Carlo Pepi Collection, about 15,000 works of contemporary art, is shown in two beautiful villas in Crespina: one in…
Pisa | Torre Guelfa (Guelph Tower)
The first records of the Pisan arsenal date back to the early 13th century when, outside the western side of…
Extra Virgin Olive Oil from the Monti Pisani
From the summit of Monte Pisano, dominated by pines and chestnut trees, you descend to meet low groves with poplars…
MuTart / Truffle Museum of San Miniato
In the heart of San Miniato, the MuTart, Museo del Tartufo delle Colline Sanminiatesi celebrates the art and science of…
Peccioli | Prehistoric Park
Dinosaurs were at the Prehistoric Park of Peccioli in 1997, thirteen years before the novel Jurassic Park, sixteen years before…
Terricciola | Etruscan underground tombs
The hypogeum is an underground construction of historical and anthropological interest, built by man or from natural cavities. In Terricciola…
Volterra | Cathedral of Santa Maria
The Cathedral was built around 1120 on a pre-existing church dedicated to Santa Maria destroyed by a violent earthquake. The…
Pisa | Art Collections at “Palazzo Blu”
The palace is the headquarters of the Pisa Foundation, which has transformed it into the main exhibition center of the…
San Giuliano Terme | “Torta coi bischeri” cake
Imagine a soft cream made with white rice, dark chocolate, pinenuts, candied fruit, raisins and spices in a shortcrust pastry pie. It is called the “Torta co’…
Vicopisano and the Medieval tower houses
Vicopisano lies on a hill at the eastern foot of the Pisan Mountains, on the border between Pisa and Lucca,.…
Pisa | The “cecìna” – street food
In Liguria they call it farinata, in Massa and Carrara it becomes ‘Calda, calda’ (hot, hot), in Livorno a more…
Lorenzana | Chiesa di San Bartolomeo Apostolo
The Church of St Bartholomew the Apostle – also known as the Church of Saints Bartholomew and Christophan – can…
Church of St. John the Baptist
The parish of Saints John the Baptist and Peter the Apostle in Calcinaia, already documented in the year 883, was…