Pisa (Tuscany), Italy【Walking Tour】4K
An early summer walking tour in the famous city of 𝗣𝗶𝘀𝗮 , in 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐲, Italy.
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*Some History*
Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower (the bell tower of the city's cathedral), the city of over 91,104 residents (around 200,000 with the metropolitan area) contains more than 20 other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and various bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.
The origin of the name, Pisa, is a mystery. While the origin of the city had remained unknown for centuries, the Pelasgi, the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the Ligurians had variously been proposed as founders of the city (for example, a colony of the ancient city of Pisa, Greece). Archaeological remains from the fifth century BC confirmed the existence of a city at the sea, trading with Greeks and Gauls. The presence of an Etruscan necropolis, discovered during excavations in the Arena Garibaldi in 1991, confirmed its Etruscan origins.
Ancient Roman authors referred to Pisa as an old city.
Virgil, in his Aeneid, states that Pisa was already a great center by the times described.
The Virgilian commentator Servius wrote that the Teuti, or Pelops, the king of the Pisaeans, founded the town 13 centuries before the start of the common era.
The maritime role of Pisa should have been already prominent if the ancient authorities ascribed to it the invention of the naval ram.
Pisa took advantage of being the only port along the western coast between Genoa (then a small village) and Ostia.
Pisa served as a base for Roman naval expeditions against Ligurians, Gauls, and Carthaginians. In 180 BC, it became a Roman colony under Roman law, as Portus Pisanus.
Pisa supposedly was founded on the shore, but due to the alluvial sediments from the Arno and the Serchio, whose mouth lies about 11 km (7 mi) north of the Arno's, the shore moved west. Strabo states that the city was 4.0 km (2.5 mi) away from the coast. Currently, it is located 9.7 km (6 mi) from the coast. However, it was a maritime city, with ships sailing up the Arno.
From the naval point of view, since the 9th century, the emergence of the Saracen pirates urged the city to expand its fleet; in the following years, this fleet gave the town an opportunity for more expansion.
The power of Pisa as a maritime nation began to grow and reached its apex in the 11th century, when it acquired traditional fame as one of the four main historical maritime republics of Italy (Repubbliche Marinare).
The decline is said to have begun on August 6, 1284, when the numerically superior fleet of Pisa, under the command of Albertino Morosini, was defeated by the brilliant tactics of the Genoese fleet, under the command of Benedetto Zaccaria and Oberto Doria, in the dramatic naval Battle of Meloria. This defeat ended the maritime power of Pisa and the town never fully recovered.
In 1290, the Genoese destroyed forever the Porto Pisano (Pisa's port), and covered the land with salt.
The true end came in 1324, when Sardinia was entirely lost in favour of the Aragonese.
Pisa was the birthplace of the important early physicist Galileo Galilei.
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0:00 - St.John Baptistery and Piazza del Duomo
4:00 - Cathedral of Pisa (footage of the interiors)
7:31 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa
18:45 - Piazza dei Cavalieri (Knights' Square) and "Scuola Normale di Pisa" building
33:45 - Garibaldi Square
35:18 - Ponte di Mezzo (Middle Bridge and panorama towards the Arno river)
1:09:25 - Alessandro d'Ancona square
1:12:53 - Piazza (square) San Paolo all'Orto
1:17:56 - Piazza (square) delle vettovaglie
1:23:20 - Piazza (square) San Frediano
1:25:51 - Piazza (square) Franecsco Carrara
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