Hello steemians!
How are you? I am sure you're good, I had a short week because at the end of the last week, was Easter time in my country. Long time I did not write anything related to my travels so it is time to come back, so here I am with another post about an Italian city, PISA.

I visited Pisa two years and a half ago and it was one of the most beautiful holidays I ever had. We were based in this city, but we traveled to Cinque Terre, Florence, Livorno. We caught a bit of the Tuscany taste and it was lovely.
Now let me show you some of the gems of the city.
Piazza dei Miracoli also known as Cathedral Square is the religious core of the city and the place where the Leaning Tower is located, moreover, the square is a UNESCO site. There are walls around this square and here you can visit some of the major attractions of the city such as the Camposanto Monumentale, or Pisa Cathedral, but also some museums.
We also visited the Pisa Baptistery of Saint John, was designed nine centuries ago and it’s the largest in whole Italy. I am sure you didn’t know that this building is also leaning, but just a bit. We were lucky to catch a short choir demonstration and it has wonderful acoustics.
One of the trademarks of the city is Camposanto, it is located only a few meters away from Baptistery. It was completed in the 15th century. It is rumored that the ground comes from Golgotha.
Cattedrale Pisa aka Pisa Cathedral is one of the most beautiful Cathedrals I ever saw in Italy, it is definitely in my top 5 along St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Milan Cathedral, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore from Bergamo. It was completed 7th centuries ago, amazing architecture.
It’s built in a gothic style and it’s in top five largest cathedrals in Italy, the largest cathedral is St. Peter's Basilica.

I think everyone knows about the main attractions of the city the great Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was designed in a period of 200 years, for this reason, there is not only one person who can take credit. It’s leaning because the soil is not that stable and the foundation was not that big, only three-meter. It has a height of 60 meters approximately. It started leaning a short time after the construction begun and until now there were several attempts to make the tower straight again. These procedures saved the tower from collapsing. The last investment cost at least 20 $millions. You can climb to the roof if you fancy see the city from above, but there is no escalator so you will have to walk approximately 297 steps.


Piazza dei Cavalieri aka Knights' Square it’s a main square in the city, there is located a Pisa University. Here you can see also Palazzo dei Cavalieri aka Knights' Palace. Here I met with a lovely frenchie, I feel in love with this breed more than ten years ago.
Champs Elysee of Pisa is Borgo Stretto, a pedestrian street where you can shop or eat lunch. If you are visiting Pisa in December, here is the Christmas Market. Don’t forget to go at Salza, the best pastry shop in the city. If you are not pleased with the shops from Borgo street, you can walk to a similar street, Corso Street.
On our last day, because we had our flight at 21:00 and the airport it’s so close we walked from our accommodation to the train station. I am really happy we had time to visit Palazzo Blu, which is really close to Santa Maria della Spina Cathedral. Palazzo Blu has the walls painted in the blue of course, and is a cultural place in Pisa, here we had the chance to visit the Art Museum. The visit lasted around 1 hour and we saw sculptures, coins, furniture, paintings. I was pretty impressed by the permanent collection, but also the temporary collection was good (Mondi di luce), a colorful mix of painting with flowers, animals and butterflies. After the visit, we stayed and enjoyed a latte macchiato at café.
If you're in the city, you can’t miss Tuttomondo murals by Keith Haring. It was made in 1989 in just one week.
In this piece of art, there are 30 figures displayed on the wall and everyone shows various aspect of peace in the world. Unfortunately, the artist dies shortly after painting this mural.
Even you can’t tell, San Michele in Borgo is one of the oldest church in the city, it was constructed in the 11th century. It suffered damage during WWII, but luckily now it’s in good shape.
Santa Maria Della Spina is one of the smallest and cutest cathedrals I ever saw, but unfortunately, it was under renovation so we only saw the exterior, for my next visit I am going to visit also the interior.
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Did you know that ARNO is one of the most important river in the whole country . It's the same river that runs through Florence too. I actually didn't know that before making this post.

Why to visit this city
• The Leaning Tower
• Architecture
• Art
• Food
• Gelato
How to get from the airport to the city
I LOVE the city because the airport is located only 1-2km away from the city center. If you are a walker, you can walk to your accommodation, if not, you can choose a taxi or a bus.
Because it was pretty late we chose a taxi and cost 10 EUR or so, but when we left we chose the bus, who was around 1 EUR.
Accommodation
You can find a lot of B&B, hotels and the prices are good. We stay at Happy House located super close to the Piazza dei Miracoli and Leaning Tower. It was decorated in a Tuscan-style. The train station it’s located only a few stations with the bus.
When it’s the best time to visit
• Spring or autumn
• In my opinion, on summer time it’s too hot to visit it. We visited on late September and it was still pretty hot.
Public Transportation
Because all the attractions are close to each other, the best way is to walk by foot. When the weather is good you can rent a bike.
Did you know that?
There are seven bells at the top of the Leaning Tower , but last when they rung was in the 20th century.
Prices for the main attractions
- The Leaning Tower 18 EUR
It’s best to buy tickets online, in this way you will save a lot of time. You can press here - Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is free.
- Baptistery 5 EUR, but if you want to visit this one and one of the following Campo Santo/ Sinopie Museum the price is different. Here are the [details] ]( http://www.opapisa.it/en/tickets/prices/)
Cathedral Museum, but now it’s closed for renovation.
- National Museum
- Palazzo Blu has free admission
Day trips from Pisa
There are a lot of option, it depends only on what you want to see. I would recommend you the following:
- Florence
- Cinque Terre
- Lucca
I really regret I chose Livorno instead of Lucca, but I know better for next time.
I would recommend you to go by train.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. – Bertrand Russell
Have you visited Pisa? Did you like it?
Best regards,
@alexandraioana26
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Great post. I also went to Pisa a couple of years ago. I didn't know about the Keith Haring mural. I only saw it from the bus as I was going back to the train station. I wish I had read your post before going.
Thank you so much. You will for your next time! cheers
Thank you very much for sharing this with us steemians!
Hope to make it to visit that city soon!
Fingers crossed!
Dear, you look FANTASTIC :)
Btw, I spent 18 BEAUTIFUL months of my life in Pisa. I did both my Erasmus and Masters in that gorgeous town. I lived in Pisanova the first time and Cisanello the second. I DEFINITELY want to go back one day. I was there in 2006 last time. Damn, time flies!
I am blushing! Thank you so much my dear @tkappa! Thanks for sharing this one with me, this is super cool, you should totally return there. ❤️
I wonder if it was the architects fault that the tower is leaning...
Pretty awesome architecture regardless
Thank you so much Jeff.
It’s leaning because the soil is not that stable and the foundation was not that big, only three-meter...
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Superb locul și postarea! ❤️
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I'm glad you did not try to straighten the tower on the photos like most people. :D Nice post!
It was funny to watch the others trying. thank you @tasjun!
I have never visited Pisa but I want to visit there one day. Thanks for nice description.
Thank you so much!
Nu stiam ca aeroportul este situat atat de aproape de centrul orasul, m-ai convins sa il trec pe lista mea cu orase de vizitat :D
O, merita 100%. Totul este la 10 minute de mers pe jos. Nu ai ce face in Pisa mai mult de o zi totusi. Poti merge cu trenul in Viareggio sau in Florenta, dar daca ai carnet de conducere si poti iesi din Unirii dimineata la 8 fara sa iti zgarii masina, iti recomand sa inchiriezi o masina. Nu iti iei asigurare, sau iti iei asigurare online (nu de la ei). Iesi mai ieftin ca 7 zile in Sinaia :D
Super, merci pt sfaturi :)
Ma bucur sa aud asta. pupici
Beautiful! As always, your travel posts make me feel a little too ... there. Thank you!
Thank you so much for all your encouragement.
With all my pleasure!
Wow!! Now you are in more pictures than in your previous Travel Posts. You see, you enhance your post with those pics with you. Great Post
Muchas gracias Mau.
Lovely pictures. Looks like you had fun :)
Thank you Stefan!
The quality of your posts is amazing - detailed, informative and with great pictures!
I've never been to Italy but there is so much to see there.
Thanks for sharing, keep up the wonderful work!
Thank you so much for your kind words! Cheers @nikolina
I have visited Pisa a few times, there are many nice and cheap places close-by to also visit. Bad choice with Livorno instead of Lucca, by night it's even more impressive.
My favorite would be Cinque Terre by train, did you visit every single one? I would recommend to stay in La Spezia and take the train, only 15 minutes to first "Terre".
Also don't ever be afraid to rent a car in Italy. Some of the offers are really cheap, as low as 6 Eur per day if you like to live dangerously and don't buy any insurance on damage :D
Ask me for tips before going again, I have visited Italy many times.
I visited only Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza and Riomaggiore. That's great, I've visited several Italian cities too, but I will make sure to ask you first! thank you so much @alexdory
They are all fine, check the others next time :P
Viareggio is also nice, on the way to La Spezia. Voltera in the south, Montefioralle near Firenze. Plenty of flowers and history everywhere :D
Also Levanto, Bonnassola, Moneglia. I think these are not included in the standard ticket. And then by car, further north. Sestri Levante, Chiavari, Rapallo, Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino, San Fruttuoso and I can't remember the others by heart but it ends in Genova. Visit the Aquarium. All the seaside up to Menton and Monaco, in France, is amazing. But be careful, taking the rental car out of the country is kinda banned :D No borders, but it's still banned.
What's your favorite Italian city?
The whole Italy :)
All the ones I already wrote there and countless more: Limone sul Garda is another good one. I prefer smaller cities/villages.
And don't get me started with the Switzerland's "Italian" cities/villages :)
Great description of Pisa! I have visited only the cathedral square and the leaning tower years ago when I was a teenager. Thanks to the low cost companies, Pisa and Tuscany became more accesible for who is coming from other part of Europe.
Thank you so much. Long live low-cost companies!
Alexandra fara catei e ca painea fara gem :))
hahaha
nu zic nu. :))
Such an amazing place, and you look fabolous! I am going to Italy this Saturday too! :)
Where are you going @alexcote?
nice article @alexandraioana26...;)
Thanks for reading it!
Your welcome@alexandraiona26....:)
From Tuscany, I find your article very beautiful and very complete, you had to go to Lucca beautiful city, I live in Pistoia if you decide to come ... I'll be your guide ... Pleasure Gianni
Thank you so much @bisec
Nice post as always! I went on a very quick tour of Pisa, only got to see the leaning tower and the church beside it from the outside. I will definitely try to spend more time there next time!
Glad you liked it! ❤️