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Campo dei Miracoli

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Introduzione
History
Location

ATTRACTIONS

Duomo
Baptistery
Camposanto
Leaning Tower

INFORMATION

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Introduzione

Enclosed on two sides by the old battlemented town walls, is the Piazza del Duomo or the Campo dei Miracoli (“Field of Miracles”) it is a wide, walled area at the heart of the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. Partly paved and partly grassed, it is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Duomo, the Leaning Tower (the cathedral's campanile), the Baptistery and the Camposanto. It is otherwise known as Piazza dei Miracoli (“Square of Miracles”).

History

In 1987 the whole square was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Location

Address: I-56100 Pisa, Italy

Duomo

The heart of the Campo dei Miracoli is the Duomo, the medieval cathedral, entitled to St. Mary. A five-aisled Romanesque basilica of white marble with aisled transepts and an elliptical dome over the crossing, was begun in 1063, after the naval victory over the Saracens, to the design of a Pisan architect named Buscheto, and was consecrated, still unfinished, in 1118. Towards the end of the 12th century a new west front was added by the architect Rainaldo and the principal apse was completed.

Baptistery

Construction was begun in 1152 by Diotisalvi in Romanesque style. It was continued about a century later by Nicola Pisano who added the airy loggia with its Gothic embroidery of triangles and aediculas, the setting for sculpture from the workshop of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. The finishing touch to this marble gem is the dome, terminated in the 14th century, covered with tiles and lead plaques and crowned by a bronze figure of the Baptist, attributed to the 14th-century artist Turino di Sano.

Camposanto

The long wall of white marble running along the northern side of the square is a perimeter wall of the Camposanto (Sacred Field). Legend has it that towards the end of the twelfth century, the then archbishop Ubaldo de' Lanfranchi returned from the Crusades with a cargo of soil from Golgotha, that the cemetery's more noted occupants may be buried in holy earth. At one time over 2000 metres of the cloister walls were frescoed. It was these frescoes that led Ruskin to value the Camposanto as one of the three most treasured buildings in Italy. Sadly, it was these frescoes that were all but completely destroyed by allied incendiary bombs in 1944.

Leaning Tower

Situated behind the Cathedral and it the third structure in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli stands the celebrated Leaning Tower (Torre Pendente), a campanile built between 1173 and 1350, with a series of several superimposed pillared galleries. Although intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate that has allowed the foundation to shift.

Useful information

Disabled: Full facilities for persons with disabilities.

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