Pisa:
Founded by the Ligurians and inhabited by the Etrurians, it was founded as a city by the Romans, whose presence can still be seen from the chess board plan of the old city. In the early Middle Ages it flourished and became an important trading pint and a powerful Maritime Republic. Pisa, of its glorious and complex past, offers to the visitors the bright Arno embankments, surrounded by Renaissance aristocratic buildings, one next to the other, a networks of medieval narrow alleys, and the green Piazza dei Miracoli, with the four masterpieces of the Romanesque period in Pisa: the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the extremely popular Leaning Tower, which is the bell tower of the church, and the Monumental Graveyard.
