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 Car Hire & Driving in Pisa, ItalyWelcome to Pisa Car Hire, Italy; available at Pisa Airport.Tuscany region Central Italy Car HireRenowned for its art, history and evocative landscapes, Tuscany is a region where the past and present merge in pleasant harmony, as you can witness in your hire car while in the Tuscany region. Hill towns gaze across the countryside from on high, many encircled by Etruscan walls and slender cypress trees, sites which you can explore in your hire car. Handsome palaces testify to the Tuscany region’s wealth while medieval town halls indicate a long-standing tradition of democracy and self-government, as you can witness in your hire car while in the Tuscany region. Pisa Car HireFor much of the middle ages, Pisa’s powerful navy ensured its dominance of the Western Mediterranean. Trading links with Spain and Northern Africa in the 12th Century brought vast mercantile wealth and formed the basis of a scientific and cultural revolution that is still reflected in Pisa’s splendid buildings which you can visit in your hire car today. Pisa’s decline began in 1284, with its defeat by Genoa, and was hastened by the silting up of the harbour. Pisa fell to the Florentines in 1406, but suffered its worse crises in 1944 when Pisa fell victim to Allied bombing. Of course the most famous building in Pisa that you can visit in your hire car has to be the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Begun in 1173 on sandy silt subsoil, the Leaning Tower of Pisa or Torre Pendente, started to tilt even before the third storey was finished in 1274. Despite the shallow foundations, construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa continued and was completed in 1350. The tower’s apparent flouting of the laws of gravity has attracted many visitors over the centuries, including the Pisan scientist Galileo, who climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to conduct his experiments on the velocity of falling objects. After recent engineering interventions that decreased the lean of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by 38cm (14 inches), the tower is once again safe and open to the public so you can pay a visit in your hire car while in Pisa. Of course the Leaning Tower of Pisa is not the only place of interest that you can visit in your hire car while in Pisa. The Duomo and Bapitstry, which you will find on Piazzo Duomo in your hire car, is part of the Campo dei Miracoli (field of Miracles) which includes the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower was originally intended as a campanile to compliment the Duomo, which was begun by Buscheto in 1064. Today the Duomo stands as one of the finest Pisan-Romanesque buildings you can visit in your hire car in Tuscany. Another place you can visit in your hire car while in Pisa is the Camposanto (cemetery) and is the forth element of the Campo dei Miracoli’s lovely ensemble. The Camposanto can be located on the Piazzo dei Miracoli in your hire car and its vast marble arcades are said to enclose soil from the Holy Land. The Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, which you will find on Piazzo del Duomo in your hire car is housed in the cathedral’s 13th century former Chapter House. This excellent modern museum displays exhibits removed over the years from the Duomo, Baptistry and Camposanto in Pisa and is well worth a visit in your hire car while in Pisa. Another museum to visit in your hire car while in Pisa is the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, which you will find in the Lungarno Mediceo on Piazzo San Matteo in your hire car. This museum is located on the banks of the Arno in San Matteo, an elegantly fronted medieval convent that also served as a prison in the 19th century, and its contents include a complete seep of Pisan and Florentine art fro 12th to the 17th centuries. A trip to the Lungarno Gambacoti in your hire car will lead you to the Santa Maria della Spina. The roofline of this tiny church bristles with spiky Gothic pinnacles, miniature spires and niches sheltering statues of apostles and saints. The church lies just beyond the Ponte Solferino on the River Arno in Pisa, although it was once even closer to the Arno, being rebuilt on the present site in 1871 to protect it from flooding. The Piazza dei Cavalieri is another place to visit in your hire car while in Pisa. The huge building on the north side of this square is home to one of Pisa University’s most prestigious colleges, the Scuola Normale Superiore. The building is worth seeing in your hire car as it is covered in exuberant black and white sgraffito decorations; designs scratched into wet plaster. The Pisa Information Centre can be found on Via Carlo Cammeo in your hire car and will be able to help with advice on what to see and do in and around Pisa in your hire car. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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