tuscany pisa

Placed in the north western part of the Tuscany, Pisa is a city among the most famous in the region.
The opinions about the origin of this city on the tuscan coast are numerous and discordant; Pisa were approached to greek, etruscan and ligurian founders, but only the finding in the last decades have crowned the tuscan city as daughter of the etruscan civilization, a civilization very present on the tuscany, latium and umbria territory since the VIII century b.C.
Renowned in the antiquity for be one of the four italian sailor republics (besides Amalfi and the super powers Genoa and Venice), Pisa based for many times its economic prosperity on the maritime commerce until it was defeated lethally by Genoa for the western Mediterraneo control.
Surely rich of history that would deserve careful deepening, Pisa is principally well-known in Tuscany and in the world like the city of the leaning tower. You can find many tourists in the square hosts it (Miracoli Square) admiring the 4 meters slope that render the Pisa tower an unique example in the world insomuch as it’s been proposed among the 7 wonder of the modern world. A peculiarity that also the larger part of tuscan people don’t know is that Pisa has more than one leaning tower! Infact, besides the famous tower placed in the Duomo square, are other two leaning towers: one constituted by the bell tower of the San Nicola’s church near the Pisa’s Arno bank; the other, placed between an tree-lined in the east zone of Pisa, is the bell tower of the San Michele degli Scalzi’s church, where even, besides the bell tower also the church is hanging!
Taking advantage of our daily tours or consulting the train timetable of the near station of Arezzo you’ll be able to reach Pisa and visit it in a day returing to Villa Le Fonti in the evening. The city of the leaning tower and the Tuscany wait you so that your holiday be the good mix of nature, fun and culture!

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