La Spezia Shore Excursion to Lucca & Pisa optional Leaning Tower

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Duration:8 hours 50 minutes (approx.)
Location: La Spezia, Piedmont & Liguria

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Perfect for those who prefer to visit the city with our assistance to take out the stress of planning. Take advantage of a detailed map of the trail, read the notes about the monuments to see and pay attention to the assistant suggestion’s on board.

You can add to your excursion a typical lunch in the city center or if you prefer visiting Lucca and Pisa on your own you can chose the Low Cost Option that includes only the transfer.

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1. Piazza dei Miracoli
Fall in love with Pisa and the amazing Piazza Dei Miracoli: the most popular attraction in Pisa where you will have free time to visit the Leaning Tower, the Cathedral and the Baptistery or relaxing In the green meadow under the shadow of one of this monument. Included in your excursion you have an ice cream ( if selected ) in the city center!
2. Leaning Tower of Pisa
If selected you have the chance to climb this iconical tower, popularly known as the leaning tower, the bell tower of the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, in the famous Piazza del Duomo of which it is the most famous monument due to its characteristic slope, symbol of Pisa and among the iconic symbols of Italy. It is a free-standing bell tower 57 meters high (58.36 meters considering the foundation plan) built over two centuries, between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. With a mass of 14,453 tons, the curved line predominates, with turns of blind arches and six floors of loggias. The slope is due to a subsidence of the underlying ground which occurred already in the early stages of construction.
3. Duomo di Pisa
The Cathedral of Pisa, officially the Primate Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, in the center of the Piazza del Duomo, also known as Piazza dei Miracoli, is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Pisa as well as the Primate church. A masterpiece of the Romanesque, in particular of the Pisan Romanesque, it represents the tangible testimony of the prestige and wealth achieved by the maritime republic of Pisa at the moment of its apogee. The building has a Latin cross shape with a large dome at the intersection of the arms. The longitudinal body, divided into five naves, extends over ten bays. This plan continues in the choir with two more bays and a final apse crowning the central nave alone. The transept has 4 bays on each side (or six if we include the two in common with the longitudinal body) and has three naves with apses ending on both sides. In the center four large pillars delimit the rectangular cross ending at the top with a large elliptical dome.
4. Battistero di San Giovanni
Admire the largest baptistery in Italy, it is 54 m high, with a diameter of 34, built from 1152 to 1363. The baptistery has a curious truncated cone dome, like that of the church of the Holy Sepulcher in Pisa, also by the same architect, which only covers the internal circle of pillars (the construction technique for a large hemispherical or polygonal dome was almost unknown at the time ). Diotisalvi's project was to architecturally cite both the Dome of the Rock (believed to be built on the ruins of the Temple of Solomon) in the external part, and the Anástasis of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in the internal part, both in Jerusalem. Subsequently the works were continued by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano who modified the Baptistery in Gothic style with the loggia and the hemispherical dome (effectively a dome) which hides the pyramidal one.
5. Camposanto
Look at Monumental Cemetery, where the legend claims that bodies buried in that ground will rot in just 24 hour. Architecturally the Camposanto is composed of a high rectangular wall, with the side facing the Cathedral and the more elongated baptistery. On the outside it is in simple white marble, with 43 blind arches with human heads on the arch connections, and two doors on the southern side[4]. The main access is the one overlooking the square, to the east, and is decorated with a rich Gothic tabernacle above the access portal, a work from the second half of the 14th century, containing statues of the Madonna and Child and four saints by a follower of John Pisano, and Angels by Tino di Camaino
6. Lucca
Once you will arrive in Lucca you will have some free time for a lunch ( if selected) or if you wish you can add to your guided tour a typical lunch in the city center. After the lunch our escort ( if selected )will lead you trough the most important landmarks like the Torre Guinigi, the Anfitatro square and the san Frediano Church.
7. Torre Guinigi
Admire the 45 metres high Tower, a typical example of Romanesque-Gothic architecture. The tower, built in stone and brick, is one of the most representative and famous monuments of Lucca; its main feature is the presence of some holm oaks on its top. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Lucca was proud of the over 250 towers and numerous bell towers that enriched the city in medieval times, within a much narrower circle of walls than today. The Guinigi, now masters of the city, wanted to refine their severe residences with a tree-lined tower, common to other palaces, which became a symbol of rebirth, on top of the simulacrum of their lordship. Reaching the top is made possible by 25 flights of stairs - for a total of 241 steps - quite easy in the first part but not in the last one, where you can continue to climb only thanks to small metal ramps. Hanging on the internal walls, it is possible to admire numerous paintings depicting scenes of medieval life.
8. Piazza Anfiteatro
Visit this square, a former second century Roman amphitheater of Lucca. The square was born in the Middle Ages and in this era it was called "parlascio", a distortion of the Latin paralisium ("amphitheatre"), which, due to the influence of the word "talk", was said to indicate the place where citizens' meetings were held. It was progressively filled with buildings, variously used as a salt warehouse, powder magazine and prison.
9. Basilica of San Frediano
Enter this Romanesque church built in in the first half of the 6th century dedicated to the three holy Levites Vincenzo, Stefano and Lorenzo existed in this place. The construction of this first church can be traced back to San Frediano himself, an Irish presbyter who was elected bishop of Lucca between 560 and 588. The excavations carried out under the current basilica confirmed the presence of the ancient building.

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Posted By : Randall_L
The tour was fine though could have started earlier to allow more time. Lucca and Pisa were enjoyable. It was unacceptable on the ride back from Pisa to La Spezia, the passengers on the Lucca tour were treated as second class, only allowed on the bus after the other group went first. We all paid for the tours we were on. If the operator decided to combine tours, that should not have negatively impacted one group of passengers.
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Posted On : 2023-10-30 12:36:53

Posted By : Kelly_R
Even though there was a slight computer error with our tour, Arianna and Matteo went out of their way to give us exactly what we hoped for! Seeing Lucca was amazing, and I highly recommend climbing the leaning tower!
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Posted On : 2023-07-01 14:20:42

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La Spezia Shore Excursion to Lucca & Pisa optional Leaning Tower

WHAT'S INCLUDED

WHAT TO EXPECT

1. Piazza dei Miracoli

2. Leaning Tower of Pisa

3. Duomo di Pisa

4. Battistero di San Giovanni

5. Camposanto

6. Lucca

7. Torre Guinigi

8. Piazza Anfiteatro

9. Basilica of San Frediano

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La Spezia Shore Excursion to Lucca & Pisa optional Leaning Tower

WHAT'S INCLUDED ⟱

WHAT TO EXPECT ⟱

1. Piazza dei Miracoli

2. Leaning Tower of Pisa

3. Duomo di Pisa

4. Battistero di San Giovanni

5. Camposanto

6. Lucca

7. Torre Guinigi

8. Piazza Anfiteatro

9. Basilica of San Frediano

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

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