Surroundings

CASCIANA TERME

The town is known above all for the thermal plant which uses calcium-sulphurous waters at a constant 37°C. It is said that the thermal water was discovered by Countess Matilde of Canossa.

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PISA

The Piazza del Duomo, also known through the poetic expression the square of miracles, is the most important artistic and tourist center of Pisa. Listed among the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO since 1987, you can admire some masterpieces of European Romanesque architecture, that is, the monuments that form the center of the city’s religious life: the cathedral, the baptistery, the cemetery, and the bell tower ( the so-called leaning tower of Pisa).

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PISA

The Piazza del Duomo, also known through the poetic expression the square of miracles, is the most important artistic and tourist center of Pisa. Listed among the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO since 1987, you can admire some masterpieces of European Romanesque architecture, that is, the monuments that form the center of the city’s religious life: the cathedral, the baptistery, the cemetery, and the bell tower ( the so-called leaning tower of Pisa).

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LUCCA

Lucca, a famous Italian city of art, is renowned for its intact Renaissance city walls from the 15th-17th centuries, approximately 4,223 meters long. One of the few in Italy still intact, together with Ferrara, Grosseto and Bergamo, the city walls were transformed in the 19th century into a pleasant pedestrian promenade, among the best preserved in Europe. The historic center has maintained its original appearance, with numerous medieval churches (hence the nickname “city of 100 churches”), towers, bell towers and Renaissance buildings of great architectural value.
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SAN GIMIGNANO

San Gimignano is above all famous for the medieval towers that still stand out over its panorama, which have earned it the nickname of medieval Manhattan. Of the 72 towers and tower-houses existing in the golden age of the Municipality, twenty-five remained in 1580 and today sixteen remain, with other ruins visible in the urban fabric. The oldest is the Rognosa tower, which is 51 meters high, while the tallest is the Torre del Podestà, also called Torre Grossa, which is 54 meters high. A regulation of 1255 prohibited private individuals from building towers higher than the Rognosa tower, although the two most important families, Ardinghelli and Salvucci, built two slightly lower towers of almost equal size, to demonstrate their power.
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SAN GIMIGNANO

San Gimignano is above all famous for the medieval towers that still stand out over its panorama, which have earned it the nickname of medieval Manhattan. Of the 72 towers and tower-houses existing in the golden age of the Municipality, twenty-five remained in 1580 and today sixteen remain, with other ruins visible in the urban fabric. The oldest is the Rognosa tower, which is 51 meters high, while the tallest is the Torre del Podestà, also called Torre Grossa, which is 54 meters high. A regulation of 1255 prohibited private individuals from building towers higher than the Rognosa tower, although the two most important families, Ardinghelli and Salvucci, built two slightly lower towers of almost equal size, to demonstrate their power.

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LARI

It retains numerous remains of its illustrious past when it was in fact the capital of the Pisan Hills. The city was awarded the Orange Flag, a mark of tourist-environmental quality awarded by the Italian Touring Club to small towns in the Italian hinterland.

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PONSACCO

It is one of the most populous towns in the Pisa area despite being, with its 19.90 km² of surface area, one of the smallest municipalities in the province. Of particular interest is the Medici Villa of Camugliano (also known as Villa Niccolini).
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PONSACCO

It is one of the most populous towns in the Pisa area despite being, with its 19.90 km² of surface area, one of the smallest municipalities in the province. Of particular interest is the Medici Villa of Camugliano (also known as Villa Niccolini).
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VOLTERRA

The city, famous for the extraction and processing of alabaster, preserves a notable historical center of Etruscan origin (the Porta all’Arco remains from this era, magnificently preserved; the Porta Diana, which preserves the blocks of the jambs; a large part of the city walls, built with gigantic blocks of local stone; and numerous hypogea used for the burial of the deceased), with Roman ruins and medieval buildings such as the Cathedral and the Palazzo dei Priori on the homonymous square, the nerve center of the town.
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