Pisa

According to a legend it was founded by mythical Trojan refugees from the Greek city of Pisa of the same name, once located in the valley of the river Alpheus in the Peloponnese. Among the city's most important monuments is - in the famous Piazza del Duomo, declared a World Heritage Site - the Cathedral, built in marble between 1063 and 1118 in the Pisan Romanesque style, with the bronze portal of Saint Ranieri by Bonanno Pisano and the pulpit by Giovanni Pisano. In the square towers the characteristic Leaning Tower, a 12th-century bell tower 56 metres high, which acquired its characteristic tilt ten years after the start of its construction, today one of the most famous Italian monuments in the world.

Note the presence of at least three leaning towers: one, the best known, precisely in Piazza del Duomo; the second formed by the bell tower of the church of San Nicola, at the opposite end of via Santa Maria, near the Lungarno; the third, halfway along viale delle Piagge (a riverside avenue in the eastern part of the city), is the bell tower of the church of San Michele degli Scalzi (in this case the church leans too).