The history of Pisa begins in the ninth century. BC when Pisa was originally a settlement of Alpheus, a civilization that, the following year, it merged with the Etruscans.
In the second century. BC this culture was then absorbed by the Romans who built Pisanus Portus.
Pisa: History-Body
After the end of the Roman Empire, was a port city of great importance for the Goths, the Lombards and Carolingians.
The next development was to become Pisa, in the eleventh century, one of four Italian Maritime Republics most powerful set in Genoa, Venice and Amalfi.
For much of the Middle Ages, the powerful navy of Pisa, the city assured the domination of the western Mediterranean.
E 'in this period that began construction that made it famous Pisa: the Cathedral and its belfry, the famous Leaning Tower.
The wealth gained Pisa allowed to found colonies in North Africa, southern Spain and on the southern coast of Asia Minor.
The decline of the maritime republic began in 1284, when he was defeated by Genoa and became more evident with the silting of the harbor.
Thus, the city passed to the dominion of the Florentines in 1406 and under the Medici family, the city flourished.
Indeed, in 1472 they again reconstituted the university in the process of decline giving a new luster to the old center.
Pisa is also the birthplace of Galileo Galilei, astronomer, physicist, mathematician and founder of the experimental method. |
