our hotel room 2: view through the window
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our hotel room 3: Isaac seated on bed
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our hotel room 4: looking down through window
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view from out hotel room 3
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street scene
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a picturesque street in Pisa
street scene 2
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Another little side street in Pisa
street scene 3
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And another quaint street
yellow building
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A house near the university quarter. The yellow color seemed extraordinary in this sunlight.
street scene 4
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you got it, another street in Pisa!
street scene 5
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and still another street in Pisa
street scene 6
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looking through the 'orologio' towards Piazza dei Cavallieri
Piazza dei Cavallieri through the Orologio
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Ulysses Dini
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A statue commemorating Ulissi Dini, a professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa in the early 20th century. This little piazza is just off the Piazza dei Cavallieri
Palms in Piazza Dini
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This little garden is near the statue of Prof. Dini
Shrine on wall
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This della Robbia style shrine, of the Pieta, is one of the few in Pisa (if not all of Italy) which is NOT in honor of the Virgin Mary!
Turreted Tower 1
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This building now houses a bank near the Borgo Stretto. The actual date of the building itself is not clear....
street scene 6
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Near the bank with the turreted tower...
capital
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a detail from one of the column capitals of the bank with the turreted tower
street scene 7
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A little piazza behind the bank with the turreted tower
street scene 8
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Another corner of the same little piazza near the bank with the turreted tower
street scene 8
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The main street in the Borgo Streeto
Market Piazza in Borgo Stretto
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Market Piazza in Borgo Stretto - detail
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Plaque about the Galileos
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Vincenzo Galileo lived in this building when "the great Galileo" was born.
Borgo Stretto
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the main street, showing the arcades of shops.
Chiesa S. Michele: facade
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Parish church of St. Michael in the Borgo Stretto. It is run by the Camaldolese Benedictine monks.
Chiesa S. Michele: Statue of St. Michael
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Poster in Piazza Garibaldi
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amusing
City Hall
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Across the Arno from the Piazza Garibali
Arno embankment
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Piazza Garibaldi
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As seen from across the Arno
Loggia
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Next to City Hall
Mosaic Madonna
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A mosaic of the Virgin Mary done in the early 1950s. We took to calling it "The Madonna with the Big Boobies"
Lung'Arno
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Another 'leaning' building in Pisa
Icon shop
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along the Arno River
Medieval wall
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intentional blind arcades, or just a bricked up building?
street scene 8
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S.Maria della Spina
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S.Maria della Spina - detail
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one of the corners of the church
S.Maria della Spina - detail
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a turret with a madonna on the facade of the main entrance
S.Maria della Spina - detail
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of the main entrance
S.Maria della Spina
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Main entrance
S.Maria della Spina - panorama 1
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S.Maria della Spina - panorama 2
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Doesn't this make it look like a little, gothic doll house?
Lion on Bridge
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near S. Maria della Spina
Lion on Bridge
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"The Fortress"
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On the Arno at the edge of medievla Pisa
Lion on Bridge
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Same bridge, but the other side of it from the pix above
