Explorar Pisa

Santa Maria della Spina is a small Pisan Gothic church on the Lungarno Gambacorti, founded around 1230 as an oratory by a bridge over the Arno. Its marble exterior carries gables, pinnacles and statues from the workshops of Giovanni and Andrea Pisano. In 1871 it was taken apart and rebuilt on higher ground to protect it from the river.

Pisa Cathedral, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is the oldest building on the Piazza dei Miracoli, begun by the architect Buscheto in 1064 and consecrated in 1118. Its arcaded marble front set the Pisan Romanesque style. Inside are Giovanni Pisano's carved pulpit of 1302–1310 and bronze doors made after a fire in 1595.

The Baptistery of San Giovanni stands opposite the west front of Pisa Cathedral and is the largest baptistery in Italy, about 55 metres high. Diotisalvi began it in 1152 in Romanesque style and the upper parts were finished in Gothic forms by 1363. Inside are a marble pulpit by Nicola Pisano from 1260 and a large octagonal font.