First stop on our short stay in Tuscany: Pisa. Like many people we had come to see the tower ... like many people, indeed.
It's lovely Piazza Duomo, Baptistery with its impressive, high cathedral and the famous Leaning Tower, all in the same axis (although the tower has some air to try to escape) and all marble. On the side, the camposanto completes this unique collection of monuments. It's not for nothing that it is called the Square of Miracles, that place. That would just beauty and architectural uniqueness of the various buildings. And it's true that it throws. Simply bad we're thousands trying to take pictures (always the same which is more) trying to straighten this poor tower while specialists are already loaded from the 90s Apart there is so many that there are even some who completely miss their photo, unable to get closer. This is the harsh law of the urban jungle ...
So, with all these people (we even crossed Lamas) and craft markets as a McDonalds, the nerve center of Pisa quickly took false air of Disneyland ... until the price: 18 € per person to climb the tower. Ouch! € 5 for other monuments. There would not abuse that a little? It was like everyone else, an original picture and we had to be content. It was willing to visit the cathedral, the only building where access is free, but there were so many people had to wait 19h (maybe those who pay have entries more quickly) and we could not. Oh well! There was still a little close for a closer look and enjoy the beautiful curtain that prevents you to take a look inside. It really is a beautiful curtain!
100m went back and forth, in the student quarter hopefully get turned less for lunch. We did not have enough back. Well, it was not ignoble, but it confirms that we can do better in Tuscany. In Pisa, especially around the Square of Miracles, unless a miracle indeed, nothing is less certain. No food-tower in Pisa then, but we expected after all. It does not matter, we are happy anyway, never discouraged, we decided to dig a little in the rest of the city.
One criticism is criticism, but promised, we came in peace. Pisa and Love!
If the rest of the city is generally less catchy, we will advise you of even spend a short day if you have time. Stroll along the banks of the Arno is quite nice to discover deeper the whole architecture of the city. Otherwise, we enjoyed the Corso Italia for shopping, Piazza dei Cavalieri including the Palazzo della Carovana or the Borgo stretto with its old arches. Visit level, there will be benefited from the Fondazione Palazzo Blu for a closer look inside a palace. Finally, Cappella di Sant'Agata sympathetic (sounds like Hagrid's house) behind the Chiesa di San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno and the Church of Santa Maria della Spina, isolated on the banks of the Arno, we have moved .
It's lovely Piazza Duomo, Baptistery with its impressive, high cathedral and the famous Leaning Tower, all in the same axis (although the tower has some air to try to escape) and all marble. On the side, the camposanto completes this unique collection of monuments. It's not for nothing that it is called the Square of Miracles, that place. That would just beauty and architectural uniqueness of the various buildings. And it's true that it throws. Simply bad we're thousands trying to take pictures (always the same which is more) trying to straighten this poor tower while specialists are already loaded from the 90s Apart there is so many that there are even some who completely miss their photo, unable to get closer. This is the harsh law of the urban jungle ...
So, with all these people (we even crossed Lamas) and craft markets as a McDonalds, the nerve center of Pisa quickly took false air of Disneyland ... until the price: 18 € per person to climb the tower. Ouch! € 5 for other monuments. There would not abuse that a little? It was like everyone else, an original picture and we had to be content. It was willing to visit the cathedral, the only building where access is free, but there were so many people had to wait 19h (maybe those who pay have entries more quickly) and we could not. Oh well! There was still a little close for a closer look and enjoy the beautiful curtain that prevents you to take a look inside. It really is a beautiful curtain!
100m went back and forth, in the student quarter hopefully get turned less for lunch. We did not have enough back. Well, it was not ignoble, but it confirms that we can do better in Tuscany. In Pisa, especially around the Square of Miracles, unless a miracle indeed, nothing is less certain. No food-tower in Pisa then, but we expected after all. It does not matter, we are happy anyway, never discouraged, we decided to dig a little in the rest of the city.
One criticism is criticism, but promised, we came in peace. Pisa and Love!
If the rest of the city is generally less catchy, we will advise you of even spend a short day if you have time. Stroll along the banks of the Arno is quite nice to discover deeper the whole architecture of the city. Otherwise, we enjoyed the Corso Italia for shopping, Piazza dei Cavalieri including the Palazzo della Carovana or the Borgo stretto with its old arches. Visit level, there will be benefited from the Fondazione Palazzo Blu for a closer look inside a palace. Finally, Cappella di Sant'Agata sympathetic (sounds like Hagrid's house) behind the Chiesa di San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno and the Church of Santa Maria della Spina, isolated on the banks of the Arno, we have moved .
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