Pisa Attractions

A VERTIGO VIEW OF THE LEANING TOWER

Advantages: Gives you something to do in Pisa
Disadvantages: No safety fence.

...lovely few days in Pisa, the tilting to the Leaning Tower had been arrested, it is even said it is now being reversed, but for obvious tourist reasons I do not envisage that it will be bought back to a level state. History says it was begun in 1173 and that it has always tilted, subsidence disrupted the foundations so that when they had only errected 3 of the 8 storeys they knew they had a problem, so for the next 180 years a succession of Architects ...
...1350 it was accepted that the angle would be accepted and the tower was completed, I imagine some far sighted business man had clocked onto its potential. The tower was eventually closed to the Public in the 1990's with an overhang of 5 meters off the true. Much work has been done in reversing the lean and it is open again to the public. This is where I come in, a VERTIGO sufferer. Perhaps I had been lulled into false security after appearing ...

poshtroika 30.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Galileo Galilei will you do the fandango...

Advantages: Good central location for Tuscany
Disadvantages: It's an airport!

Pisa International Airport, or, as Ryanair like to call it, 'Florence airport' likes to call itself 'the Strategic gateway to Tuscany'. If all that weren't confusing enough, its Sunday name is Pisa International Airport - Galileo Galilei. Of course, it doesn't really matter what its called - what matters is whether the flight you want goes there...and I suppose, departs from there. When we took a trip to Tuscany last year, it rather conveniently ...
...there will have to use Pisa - Florence airport is smaller although I think there are plans to enlarge it. Not that it matters all that much, Florence isn't all that far from Pisa and there are excellent communication links. In fact, the railway station is literally on the doorstep. The airport is quite well situated for all the major attractions of Tuscany with Florence being 80km to the east, Siena around 100km south, the resorts on the coast are ...

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S. Maria della Spina

Advantages: A really little jewel you can't miss...
Disadvantages: The most important part of it it's his exterior view

...main subject of this op. Santa Maria della Spina is one of the first things that catches your attention by walking along the Arno (on the Lurgarno). It is situated near the Ponte Solferino, it is one bridge from the city main roads (Borgo Stretto and Corso Italia) where there is Palazzo Gambacorti, the municipality. (Easily reachable by feet) It was edified in 1230 as an oratory to protect the "ponte novo", a bridge linking S. Antonio and S. Maria ...
...is the result of a lot of works: maintenance and enlarging one, it was first edified on the Arno river and then dismantled and rebuild upon the Lungarno around 1871. It has the typical Gothic aspects mixed with Romanesque and Oriental ones. In Italy this architectural style is known as Gotico Pisano. It is a little building, but rich on decoration, it is the result of many years work because it was completed in 1376, made with Carrara double chromic ...

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Review of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa

My Angle on PISA

Advantages: Big WOW factor
Disadvantages: None

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 ...
...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 of someone 'holding' up the famous tower (yes, of course I did). We stayed in the Holiday Inn just outside town ...

proxam 13.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning tower of Pisa

Advantages: Visit to the one of the World Wonder
Disadvantages: Careful with local thieves.

...towards Turin (Torino in Italian). The ticket will cost you around 80 euros per person. This was on a New year day. From the Pisa Central station, you can take a bus to the leaning tower of pisa its just 10 minutes away. The bus stops straight in front of the Pisa entrance. There are two more churches and a museum inside the grounds. One of the churches is free and you should buy tickets to visit all the other churches and to climb the tower. Its ...
...go inside you have to reach the top as there is no space to two way traffic. There is a seperate way to exit the tower. The ticket to the tower alone will cost you around 15 euros and between 5 - 10 euros to the other attractions per person. ...

seriousstuff 01.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Leaning Tower of Pisa