The real Pisa
About 3,000 buildings from OpenStreetMap, a small first piece of the centre on both banks of the Arno. More of the city comes later.
Instant Pisa BETA
Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback through Pisa, from the Leaning Tower down to the Arno!
The centre of Pisa in 3D, from the Piazza dei Miracoli down to the Arno: the Leaning Tower and the Duomo, Via Santa Maria, the Lungarni and the Ponte di Mezzo, every building from OpenStreetMap.
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What there is to do
From the tower to the river
The Duomo, the Baptistery, the Leaning Tower and the Camposanto on the Piazza dei Miracoli, the Piazza dei Cavalieri and Borgo Stretto, Santa Maria della Spina on the Lungarno and Corso Italia out to the station.
A race: Tower and Arno
Up Via Roma to the Leaning Tower, down Via Santa Maria to the Arno, across the Ponte di Mezzo, past Santa Maria della Spina and back over the Ponte Solferino.
This is Pisa
Pisa lies on the Arno in Tuscany, a few kilometres from the sea. In the Middle Ages it was one of Italy’s great sea republics, and its fleet paid for the white marble cathedral, baptistery and bell tower on the Piazza dei Miracoli. The bell tower began to lean while it was being built and has leaned ever since. Today Pisa is above all a university town, with its students on the squares and its palazzi along the river.
- The Leaning Tower, the bell tower that started to lean before it was finished
- The Piazza dei Miracoli, with the Duomo, the Baptistery and the Camposanto in white marble on a green lawn
- Galileo Galilei, who was born here and studied and taught at the university
- The Lungarni along the bend of the Arno, lit with 70,000 candles at the Luminara every June
- The Scuola Normale and the University of Pisa, among the oldest and most selective in Italy
Places, elements and landmarks
Leaning Tower of PisaThe cathedral’s bell tower, which started to lean before its third floor was finished and has leaned ever since, some four degrees today.
Duomo di PisaThe marble cathedral of 1064, paid for with the spoils of a raid on Palermo, the first great building of the Pisan Romanesque.
BaptisteryThe largest baptistery in Italy, round and domed, where a guard sings a few notes every half hour to let you hear its echo.
CamposantoThe marble cloister of a cemetery on the north side of the square, said to stand on earth brought back from Golgotha.
Santa Maria della SpinaA tiny Gothic church on the bank of the Arno, all pinnacles and statues, once home to a thorn from Christ’s crown.
Piazza dei CavalieriThe square of the Knights of Saint Stephen, with Vasari’s painted palace, now the Scuola Normale, and the tower where Count Ugolino starved.
Borgo StrettoPisa’s old shopping street under the arcades, from the Ponte di Mezzo north into the medieval town.
The LungarniThe streets along both banks of the Arno, lined with palazzi in ochre and pink, lit with thousands of candles every 16 June.
Ponte di MezzoThe middle bridge, where the city has crossed the Arno since Roman times, and where the north and the south of Pisa fight every June.
Ready to go?
Play Instant PisaStill in development: expect some rough edges.