Piazza (square) dei Miracoli, the Baptistery, the Duomo (Cathedral) and the Leaning Tower (Torre Pendente)
The Piazza del Duomo ("Cathedral Square") is a wide, walled area to the north of central Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. It is a sacred area of Roman Catholicism, and it is dominated by four great sacred edifices: the Duomo (cathedral), the Campanile (the cathedral's free standing bell tower), the Baptistry and the Campo Santo (the monumental graveyard). Partly paved and partly grassed, it hosts also other buildings such as the old hospital (now in part the Museum of Sinopias) and the Museum of the "Opera del Duomo" (the Cathedral Square museum]. It is otherwise known as Piazza dei Miracoli ("Square of Miracles"). This name was created by the Italian writer and poet Gabriele d'Annunzio who, in his novel Forse che sì forse che no (1910) described the square in this way: L’Ardea roteò nel cielo di Cristo, sul prato dei Miracoli. which means: "The Ardea rotated over the sky of Christ, over the meadow of Miracles." Often people tend to mistake the term with Campo dei Miracoli ("Field of Miracles"). This one is a fictional magical field in the book Pinocchio, where a gold coin seed will grow a money tree. In 1987 the whole square was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Location: Pisa, Italy
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