Janet Ross e Nelly Erichsen – Pisa, The Appearance of the City … – 3

Pisa – Piazza dei Cavalieri

At the end of Via S. Frediano is a wonderfully picturesque square, the Piazza de’ Cavalieri.

Here the buildings follow the irregular curve of the ancient forum or amphitheatre, upon whose ruins rose the noble palaces of the Commune, the Palazzo degl’Anziani, the Palazzo Vecchio, and the infamous prison-tower of the Gualandi. These have all perished.

Cosimo I rebuilt them to serve the purposes of his rather mock-heroic equestrian Order of S. Stefano, and his statue is now the guardian of the place. The Piazza S. Caterina, with its pleasant rows of trees, forms a much-needed oasis of shade in the north-east corner of the city.

The heart of the famous University is La Sapienza, a brown building with an ancient cloister standing almost in the centre of the curved Lung’ Arno ; while her younger offshoots, the Natural History Museum, the Botanical Garden, the Schools of Medicine and Surgery, line Via Solferino.

The great hospital of S. Chiara, whose healing work has continued unceasingly since the middle ages, occupies nearly the whole of the south side of the Piazza, del Duomo.

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( From the book “The Story of Pisa” by Janet Ross and Nelly Erichsen – Illustrade by Nelly Erichsen – London : J.M. Dent & Co, Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedfod Street Covent Garden, W.C. – 1909 )

 

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