Pisa

Pisa carries the quiet pride of a medieval power that once ruled the sea. Long before the Leaning Tower became an icon, this was a republic fierce enough to challenge Genoa and Florence, wealthy enough to build in marble, and bold enough that Dante both admired and condemned its people. In the Inferno, he calls Pisa “the shame of the people of that fair land,” a city whose betrayals and political cruelties were infamous in his time.Læs mere