A visit to the Cathedral of Pisa, Romanesque and medieval

Pisa Cathedral

Pisa is a beautiful city in Italian Tuscany and in addition to the Tower of Pisa, if there is something that we cannot miss here, it is the visit to the Pisa Cathedral. It is on the Piazza dei Miracoli around which the Baptistery, the cemetery and the Bell Tower or Leaning Tower are concentrated.

The cathedral is a medieval building which is dedicated to Santa María de la Asunción. It is simple and its construction began in 1093. It is considered a masterpiece of romanesque style and its first architect was Buscheto. He was buried in the last blind arch on the left side of the facade, in fact. The façade itself is the work of his successor, Rainaldo. The truth is that a voracious fire destroyed almost all the medieval art that it kept in 1595 and then a rrenaissance period.

The marble façade is reminiscent of the Cathedral of Florence, very Romanesque. The pastel colored marble, bronze doors, Moorish style columns and a high ceiling are its main features. If you go in summer, you might enter through these magnificent doors that also date back to 1595 and were forged by Giambologna's students. But in general, the temple is entered from the south side, from near the Tower of Pisa.

The ship it has a marble floor and two aisles on each side with a oval shaped dome. As I said the fire killed the medieval decorations so inside today the art is Renaissance although if you look you will still find something medieval like the tomb of Emperor Henry VII, from 1315 or the pulpit of Giovanni Pisano from the same period. You will also see near the pulpit a bronze lamp that occupies the place where before the fire there was another lamp that, according to legend, Galileo was looking at when he came up with the idea of ​​the pendulum.

Between March and September open from 10 am to 8 pm.


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