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Cities Information
PISA
| Region |
Tuscany |
| Capital |
Pisa |
| Total Population |
381,119 |
| Males |
184,613 |
| Females |
196,506 |
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Pisa
Information
Pisa is a historic
town in Tuscany, near the mouth of the Arno river.
Once a city of political and cultural importance, Pisa
is now most famous for one of its architectural
masterpieces, the Leaning Tower. 
Traveling through in the 1760s, notoriously critical
Tobias Smollett found Pisa a 'fine old city' and
admired the town's elegant palaces and 'majestic
solitude'. Modern Pisa - away from the tourist hub -
still has a quietness and an air of a town that has
seen greater days. A thousand years ago, the naval
town ruled a miniature empire, including Corsica,
Sardinia and the Balearics. An influential power, Pisa
was also the home of mathematician Fibonacci and the
celebrated Galileo Galilei. Like Rome, Venice and
Amalfi, Pisa's pride came before its fall, and as
rival Genoa conquered the seas, and the Arno silted
up, Pisa's light began to fade. Today Pisa is an
important university town, with a population of
100,000, and a major tourist destination. Day trippers
flock in to marvel at the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Pisa is very accessible from other parts of Italy. The
town is on major train lines connecting with Rome.
The main railway station is called Stazione Centrale,
and is about twenty minutes walk from the centre. Bus
number 1 runs directly from the station to the Campo
dei Miracoli.
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