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Advantages: Breath taking views, easy to get to and around Disadvantages: Them damn bicycles
with over 3000 years of history dating back to the eleventh century and whilst I was there I managed to visit the 5 main attractions which can be found at a place which is dubbed the CampodeiMiracoli roughly translated means the field of miracles. It is here which you can find the following:
The Leaning Tower (Torre Pendente) - I was actually surprised at how much the Tower actually does lean and the view as you stand below the Tower is as breath taking as it is once you get to the top. Construction of the Leaning Tower began back in the eleventh century around 1170 and it wasn't until they had began building the third section that the slight lean was noticed and Masons tried wedging large stones underneath the structure to holt the lean but this had an adverse effect and the Tower leaned even more and to date engineers have tried ...
kappaslappa 03.10.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Pisa (Italy)
One of the highlights of our trip to Tuscany last year was to be our visit to Pisa. To be accurate, the main attraction was not so much the city of Pisa itself, charming though it undoubtedly is, but the Field of Miracles*. Well, to be punctiliously precise, it wasn't even the Field of Miracles that had our anticipatory juices flowing, but The Leaning Tower of Pisa in particular.
* The Field of Miracles is the area housing the Duomo, Tower, Baptistry and associated buildings.
To be honest, if you discount the Field of Miracles, I'm not sure that much else in Pisa merits a visit although I expect some Pisaphile will soon put me straight on that count. However, it can't be denied that the seething masses that are constantly disgorged from the tourist buses usually have one thing in mind and that's to take one of those corny snaps ...
Advantages: Good price, great rooms and breakfast Disadvantages: not best surroundings
This was a definite 'how far can we go on a budget at Easter where it might be warm?' affair. Thank God for budget airlines. Me, the wife and the nipper/satan spawn off to Pisa on Ryanair from Liverpool for about £140 should do it.
But where to stay? I was all for sleeping on a beach but Italy in April wouldn't stop hypothermia I was told. So it was time to scour the internet for somewhere with 5 days availability, vaguely out of season and cheap. We had about £400 to play with. Not too bad. The wonders of the modern family meant that some of our kids were spending time with their real parents so we were down from 5 to 1. It wasn't my idea to conceive a child between us that we couldn't ship out. Damn female hormones. Rather than spend our time mourning, we thought it best to bugger off of on holiday without them to ease the pain ...
