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Pisa, in the past an
Etruscan settlement and subsequently a Roman Colony, and
later sill, the ancient a proud Maritime Republic, rises
close to the Tirrenian Sea on the banks of the river
Arno, that flows through in the Middle Ages gave it its
period of maximum splendour: the numerous civilian and
religious edifices, the squares, the typical narrows
alleys running perpendicular to the Arno, testify, in
the historic centre’s forma urbis, to a remarkable
economic and political stability.Traces of the Roman and
medieval settlements were completely lost, partly
because of bombing during the Second Word War, but there
are still ample stretches of the town walls, built
between 1154 –1155 and the Mid – Fourteenth Century.In
the XI Century Pisa intensified trade in the
Mediterranean Sea, conquered Sardinia and the towns of
Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Bona and Al Mahdiya in Africa,
and furthermore could boast of many victories against
the Muslim ships.
Oriented towards
Ghibelline politics, Pisa was the only free Commune in
all of Tuscany to openly support the Swabian sovereigns
(Frederick I Barbarossa, Henry VI, Frederick II,
Manfredi and Corradino) and were thus in contrast with
the Papacy, and excommunicated in 1241 for having
captured and consigned to the Emperor Frederick II a few
high – ranking priests on their way to Rome to take part
in a council.
The gradual decline of the
city was decreed by its rival Genoa with the defeat of
Meloria in 1284 and subsequently also by Florence. The
loss of Sardinia and predominance over the sea placed
Pisa in a kind of isolation from which it only emerged
around 1500.
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Near Pisa you can find
On 18 august start the "Giornata di Festa
nell'Anno Domini 1398". The
event is a rappresentation of life in old
medioeval period. -----------------------------
The Certosa of
Calci Founded in 1366, rises to
approximately 10 kilometers from
Pisa. Its Museum of
Natural History and the Territory of the University of
the Studies of Pisa is visitabile
------------------ Volterra an etruscan city
Alabaster is a stone used to realise
orrido di botri
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