Operated by the University of Pisa the free-to-enter Orto Botanical Gardens were established in 1544 by the illustrious benefactor Cosimo I de' Medici and are the first university botanical garden in ...
Located in the Piazza dei Cavalieri (east of the Botanic Garden) the Palazzo dei Cavalieli was originally called the Palazzo degli Anziani or Palace of the Elders. In 1562 Giorgio Vasari began a rebui...
The Royal Palace (the Palazzo Reale) is a simple yet large building built between 1583 and 1587 for Francesco I of the Medici family who had it designed by Buontalenti. They spent time in Pisa in an a...
