{"id":3065,"date":"2018-06-07T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/territorio\/pisa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:56:50","slug":"pisa","status":"publish","type":"territorio","link":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/territory\/pisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pisa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cut by the River Arno, Pisa<\/strong> is in a favorable geographical position, located on the slopes of Mount Pisano and a few kilometers from the sea. <\/em><\/p>\n

Visitors can find the atmosphere of its glorious past in the narrow alleys with medieval tower houses, in the Renaissance palaces overlooking the River Arno, in the Pisan-Romanesque churches, on the medieval walls that surround the city, in Piazza dei Cavalieri<\/strong>, all the way to the splendor that is Piazza dei Miracoli<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Miracles Square and the Lungarni<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Baptistery, the Cathedral, the Leaning Tower and the Camposanto Monumentale<\/strong> are all symbols of the path of Man from birth to death and they represent the grandiose majesty of the Piazza as well as the economic power of Pisa, then a Maritime Republic. The Opera del Duomo Museum<\/strong> and the Sinopie Museum<\/strong> also belong to the monumental complex of the Piazza.<\/p>\n

Just outside the walls is instead the old Jewish Cemetery<\/strong> while nearby is the Botanical Garden<\/strong>, the first university botanical garden in the world.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Pisa boasts a museum network on the River Arno<\/strong> (over 6km long) which includes the National Museum of San Matteo, the National Museum of the Royal Palace, the Museum of Graphic Design, the exhibition site of Palazzo Blu and the Museum of Ancient boats which houses reconstructions of Roman boats.<\/p>\n

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University city: Galileo, Fibonacci and Pacinotti<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Pisa is synonymous with culture: its University was founded in 1343<\/strong> while the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore<\/strong> was created in 1810 thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte. The Sant\u2019Anna\u2019s School<\/strong> of Advanced Studies and the Pisa Research Area of the National Research Council are more recent but still excellent.<\/p>\n

It was here that people who changed the course of history were born, such as Leonardo Fibonacci<\/strong>, who introduced Arabic numerals in the West and conceived the famous mathematical series; Galileo Galilei<\/strong>, who began his career as a university professor and conceived the laws of isochronism and the fall of weights; and Antonio Pacinotti<\/strong>, inventor of the dynamo and the direct current electric motor.<\/p>\n