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Battistero
Address: Piazza del Duomo
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: primaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: winter 9-16.30; spring 9-17.30; summer 8-19.30
Entrance fee: 5 euro; combined ticket for all monuments in Piazza del Duomo 10,50 euro
Disabled access: no
Contruction of the Baptistery,designed by architect Diotisalvi, was begun in 1153 and ended in the 13th century with the contribuction of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. The interior contains a number of masterpieces: Guido da Cosmo’s baptisimal font (1246), Nicola Pisano’s pulpit (1260), the Cosmatesque pavement and the 13th century sculpted capitals. The visit to the interior, wich is noted for its superb acoustics,includes the climb up to the matroneum and the area around the dome.
Camposanto Monumentale
Address: Piazza del Duomo 147
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: primaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: winter 9-16.30; spring 9-17.30; summer 8-19.30
Entrance fee: 5 euro; combined ticket for all monuments in Piazza del Duomo 10,50 euro
Disabled access: no
Begun in 1277 by Giovanni di Simone and badly damaged durino 1944 air raids, the Camposanto, or cemetery, has an extremely important collection of medieval and 15th century wall paintings, and works by various artist including Taddeo gaddi and Benozzo Gozzoli. Of particular interest are the frescoes (detached and relocated) depicting TheTriumph of Death, The last Judgement, Hell And Stories of the Anchorites, it also boasts an exceptional collection of roman sarcophagi (1st-3rd centuries Ad).
Cattedrale di Santa Maria
Address: Piazza del Duomo
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: primaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: winter: 10-12.45, 15-16.30 weekdays; spring and autumn: 10-17.30 weekdays; 13-17.30 ,Sundays and holidays, summer: 10-19.30 weekdays, 13-19.30 Sunday and holidays
Entrance fee: 2 euro
Disabled access:yes
Construction of the Cathedral began in 1063 under the direction of Buscheto. The splendid facade was finished a hundred years later by Rainaldo. The multi-aisled interior is an architectural gem containing a number of masterpieces such as Giovanni Pisano’s marble pulpit (1311), the Cimabue mosaic in the apse,canvases by Andrea del Sarto and Beccafumi, a bronze Crucifix by Giambologna and a lamp which,as legend has it, inspired Galileo’s studies of pendulum movement.
Collezioni Egittologiche dell'Università del studi di Pisa
Address: Via San Frediano 12
Tel. 050598647
Fax. 050500668
e-mail: silvano@sta.unipi.it
Opening time: on request
Entrance fee: entrance free
Disabled access:no
Created in 1962 from the Picozzi bequest,a collection of around a hundred archaelogical finds and ethnographical curiosities brought back from Egypt and Nubia by gaetano Rossellini. It was addedto in 1964 with the Schiff Giorgini collection, 400 items that came to light during excavation work carried out by Michela Schiff Giorgini in Soleb and Sedeinga in Sudan. The collection also include the demotic ostraka oh ossirinco and other material found in Pisa University’s excavation sites in Egypt.
Collezioni Paletnologiche dell'Università del studi di Pisa
Address: Via Santa Maria 53
Tel. 0502215801
Fax. 0502215816
e-mail: grifoni@arch.unipi.it
Opening time: Monday-Friday on request
Entrance fee: entrance free
Disabled access:no
These collection developed out of the collection of Regnoli, the Pisan physician who in 1867 carried out the first excavations of prehistoric sites in the caves of Versilia and Monte Pisano. It was later enlarged with the addition of material from the Palaeolithic to the Bronze age that came to light in sites in various regions of Italy. There are also plaster casts of prehistoric art works and a sizeable collection off animal remains found in the sites,which have proved important in reconstucting the living enviroments and economies of those times.
Domus Mazziniana
Address: Via Mazzini 71
Tel. 05024174
Fax. 05024174
e-mail: webmaster@domusmazziniana.it
Opening time: weekdays 8.30-13.30; saturday 8.30-12 The visit to the museum is with a guide, visitors are advised to book in advanve.
Entrance fee: entrance free
Disabled access:no
The aim of the Domus Mazziniana is to propagate the thinking of Mazzini and the democratic principies of the Risorgimento. The museum is housed in Palazzo Nathan-Rosselli, where Mazzini stayed as a guest up to his death, on 10 march 1872. it displays a range of memorabilia and documents and works in conjunction with the historical archive and special Risorgimento library.
Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe dell'Università degli Studi di Pisa
Address: Via Sant’Agostino 120
Tel. 050587111
Fax. 050580128
e-mail: gs@www.arte.unipi.it
Opening time: awaiting relocation
Entrance fee: to be defined
Disabled access:yes
Currently awaiting completino of its new official home, this estensive public collection of contemprary graphic art (over 8000 works on paper) i san important body of modern and contemporary graphic art (engravings by Fattori,Bartolini and moradi, a collection of drawings by Futurist architect Mario Chiattone) and extensive bibliographical documentation from te 1950s to the 1970s.
Museo Anatomico Veterinario
Address: Viale delle Piagge 2
Tel. 050570715
Fax. 050570017
e-mail: carbenve@vet.unipi.it
Opening time: on request
Entrance fee: entrance free
Disabled access:no
This museum was created in connection with veterinari medicine teaching activities in the Grand-Duchy in the first half of the 19th century and comprises a collection of preparations produced for educatioal purposes mainly on domesticated animals,in particular horses, to visualise animal anatomy.
Museo degli strumenti per il calcolo
Address: Area dei Vecchi Macelli, via Nicola Pisano 25
Tel. 0502215212
Fax. 0502215277
e-mail: Roberto.vergara@df..unipi.it
Opening time: on request- temporary exhibitions are also held with various opening time.
Entrance fee: price varies according to the exhibition
Disabled access:yes
This museum,wichis still being set up,is housed in five large buildings in a 12000 square-metre park.. he collections include around 700 scientific instruments from the 17th,18th,19th centuries and some 2000 calculation instruments. The most notable exhibits are the Thomas arithmomètre of 1850, the Burroughts of 1859, Carlo Matteucci’s commutator, the CEP, the galileo’s compass and a machine belonging to Antonio Pacinotti.
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Address: Via dell’Arcivescovado 6
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: pimaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: november-february 9-16; april-september 8-19.20; march and october 9-17.20
Entrance fee: 5 euro; combined ticket with entrance to one other monument in the square: 6 euro; combined ticket for all monuments in Piazza del Duomo 10,50 euro
Disabled access: yes
The masterpieces and architectural fragments from the cathedral Treasury and the monument in the square have been housed in the Palazzo dei canonici del Duomo since 1986. the most interesting works are a bronze statue of a griffin (an example of Islamic art), works by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (busts and statues from the baptistery,an iory madonna and Child) and a works by Tino di Camaino (altar-tomb of St.Ranieri).
Museo delle Sinopie
Address: Piazza del Duomo 3
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: pimaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: november-february 9-16.30; april-september 8-19.30; march and october 9-17.30
Entrance fee: 5 euro; combined ticket for all monuments in Piazza del Duomo 10,50 euro
Disabled access: yes
The rooms of the former Spedale della Misericordia (a 13th century hospital) contain the preparatory drawings for the frescoes in the Camposanto,produced using the sinopia technique by Bonamico Buffalmacco, Taddeo gaddi, Andrea Bonaiuti, Antonio Veneziano,Benozzo Gozzoli and other 14th-15th century artists. The sinopias came to light during the long and delicate operation of detaching the frescoes after the fire caused by the allied air raid of 27 july 1944,wich caused extensive damage to the cemetery.
Museo di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica
Address: Via Roma 57
Tel. 050992894
Fax .050992706
e-mail: g.fornaciari@med.unipi.it
Opening time: temporarilly closed
Entrance fee: to be defined when the museum reopens
Disabled access: yes
Thi museum, currently undergoing refurbishment, was created in 1870 as a collection of anatomical items of pathological interest, and was gradually enlarged with the addition of anatomical preparations and rare pieces or items of considerable medical interest. They include a collection of bladder stones, a collection of deformed new-born babies and a teratological animal collection. There is also an extensive iconographical collection of autopsy reports and of ancient books and prints.
Museo di Anatomia Umana del Dipartimento di Morfologia Umana e Biologia Applicata
Address: Via Roma 57
Tel. 050992894
Fax. 992706
e-mail: g.fornaciari@med.unipi.it
Opening time: on request
Entrance fee: entrance free
Disabled access: yes
The museum of Human Anatomy was estabilshed under Leopold II of Lorraine and opened 15 november 1832.
It has various osteological, syndesmological and angiological collections, archaeological material,anatomical tables and wax models.
Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale
Address: Lungarno Pacinotti 46
Tel. 050926539
Fax. 0505000099
Opening time: weekdays: 9-15; Saturday 9-14; closed sundey and holidays
Entrance fee: 3 euro; combined ticket with national museum of San Matteo 6 euro
Disabled access: yes
Opened in 1989 in the building designed by Buontalenti,this museum contains artworks from the courts of the Medici, Lorraine and Savoy households and other Pisan collector’s items. They included rare medici tapestries, with items by Stradano, a vast collection of 15th and 16th century armour (900 pieces), mannerist sculptures and ivory miniatures from the Ceci collection. Paintings include works by Raphael, Bronzino, Rosso Fiorentino and Antonio Canova.
Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
Address: Piazza San Matteo in Soarta
Tel. 050541865
Fax. 050540153
Opening time: weekdays 8.30-19; Sundays and Holidays 8.30-13.30. closed monday
Entrance fee: 4 euro; 2 euro reduced; combined ticket with national museum of San Matteo 6,5 euro
Disabled access: some
One of Italy’s museums of italian medieval art boasts an axcptional collection of paintings by Giunta Pisano, Simone Martini,Masaccio, Gentile da Fabriano, Beato Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio and others; sculptures by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Andrea della Robbia and Nino Pisano and Valdambrino; a collection of decorated Islamic ceramics (10th-13th centuries) comprising over 600 items and exquisite illuminated manuscripts (12th-14th centurie).
Orto Botanico e Museo Botanico
Address: Via Luca Ghini 5
Tel. 0502215374
Fax. 050551345
e-mail: direzione@dsb.unipi.it
Opening time:museum open on request. Botanical garden: nov-feb 8.30-17 mon-fri; 8.30-13 Saturday; mar-oct: 8-17.30 mon-fri, Saturday 8.30-13
Entrance fee: bookings obligatory for groups
Disabled access: yes if accompained
Founded in 1591,following another two which opened in 1544 and 1563, this is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. It has collections of mediterranean and exotic plants,medicinal species and plants of historical interest. The adjoining museum has portraits of 17th century botanist and anatomical and mycological modls from the 19th century,together with some 300000 examples of dried plans.
Torre Pendente
Address: Piazza del Duomo
Tel. 050560547
Fax. 050560505
e-mail: primaziale@sirius.pisa.it
Opening time: winter 9-17; summer 8-20 (visit every half hour for groups of no more than 40 people)
Entrance fee: 15 euro
Disabled access: no
The cathedral belltower,construction of which began in 1173,took some 200 years to complete. It was to have been perfectly upright, but subsidence caused it to begin to lean while it was being built. After years of studies and consolidation work involving the most advanced engineering technologies,the tower has now reopened to the public. Inside, a spiral staircase with 294 steps leads up to the top of the tower,which offers a unique view over the square and the city.