The Campo Santo

Pisa - a compact attraction

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May 21st 2011
After parking in a grotty city centre car park and wandering along an untractive urban street we turned the corner to be met with not one but four splendid monuments. We were in the "Field of Miracles" lying to the northwest of the city centre of Pisa. Not only were we admiring the world famous Leaning Tower but also the Duomo, begun in 1063, the Baptistry, started in 1152, and the Campo Santo ce ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more