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| THE LEANING TOWER |
 First an Etruscan village and then a Roman port, Pisa experienced its height of splendor after the year 1000, when it asserted itself in the Tyrrhenian Sea as a maritime republic. The pathetic defeat in the battle against Genoa at Meloria was fatal to Pisa in 1284. After a period of obscurity, it again took off under the domain of the Medici, and in the 1400s under the Lorena, when it became an important cultural center. It owes its world fame to the Leaning Tower and to the other works in the "Campo dei Miracoli," symbol of Pisa's period of greatest glory. A visit to Pisa is not just for the Tower, but continues with the villages of the Pisan hills, the natural oasis of San Rossore, beach establishments, and extraordinary archaeological and artistic beauties of Volterra and Massa Marittima (the latter in the territory of Grosseto). |
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