{"id":9544,"date":"2019-06-15T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/?post_type=attrazione&p=9544"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:03:14","slug":"church-of-santa-maria-della-spina","status":"publish","type":"attrazione","link":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/attrazione\/church-of-santa-maria-della-spina\/","title":{"rendered":"Pisa | Church of Santa Maria della Spina"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Church of Santa Maria della Spina was originally called Santa Maria del Ponte Nuovo, as it was built on the bank of the Arno<\/strong> at the height of the bridge – destroyed in the 15th century – that connected Via Santa Maria with today’s Via Sant’Antonio.<\/em><\/p>\n

The origin of the name<\/h2>\n
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@ Guglielmo Giambartolomei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The church owes its name to the fact that it once guarded one thorn (spina) of Christ’s crown<\/strong>, which is currently located in the church of Santa Chiara<\/strong> (in Via Roma).<\/p>\n

The fa\u00e7ade<\/strong> in Gothic style<\/strong>, with numerous spires, is divided in the center by a pillar that holds a Madonna and Child between two angels.<\/p>\n

The interior<\/strong> has a single hall, with walls divided by two-colored bands, typical of the Pisan Romanesque<\/strong>. The church preserves the tabernacle, which contained the relic of the Thorn, and a copy of the Madonna del Latte by Andrea and Nino Pisano (the original at the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo<\/strong><\/a> on the Lungarno Mediceo).<\/p>\n

Because of the damage caused by the frequent flooding of the Arno, in 1871 the church was dismantled and rebuilt one meter higher than its initial position<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The church is currently the location of temporary art exhibitions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17382,"parent":0,"template":"","tipo-attrazione":[1457],"filter-who":[1453,1455,1454,1452],"filter-time":[1448],"class_list":["post-9544","attrazione","type-attrazione","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-attrazione-attrazione-cultura-en","filter-who-couple","filter-who-family","filter-who-adults","filter-who-single","filter-time-1-hour"],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"it_IT","id":6879,"post_title":"Pisa | Chiesa di Santa Maria della Spina","href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/pisa-chiesa-di-santa-maria-della-spina\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attrazione"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-attrazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-attrazione?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"filter-who","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-who?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"filter-time","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-time?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}