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Pisa Cathedral

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta was founded in 1064 and consecrated on 26 September 1118. Buscheto began the building and Rainaldo extended it and raised the façade, with bands of white and black marble in an Arab style and reused Roman pieces. Its plan has five naves and a three-nave transept, with a dome over the crossing. A fire in 1595 destroyed much of the decoration, including Bonanno's bronze doors of the central portal. Inside, the pulpit by Giovanni Pisano, made between 1302 and 1310, stands out, as does the apse mosaic, where Cimabue made the figure of St John the Evangelist around 1302. The funerary monument of Emperor Henry VII, from 1315, and the 17th-century coffered wooden ceiling are also preserved. It is in the Piazza dei Miracoli, between the baptistery and the bell tower.

Things to do at Pisa Cathedral: 4 missions

• Decipher the stripes and Roman remains on the façadeFrom outside, walk along the façade and pick out the alternating marble stripes and the reused Roman materials set into the wall.
• Look for Cimabue's Saint John in the apseLook towards the apse mosaic and find the figure of Saint John the Evangelist, by Cimabue around 1302.
• Look at the coffered ceiling and the tomb of Henry VIILook up at the wooden coffered ceiling of the nave and then find the funerary monument of Emperor Henry VII.
• Examine Giovanni Pisano's pulpitInside the cathedral, look for the pulpit sculpted between 1302 and 1310 by Giovanni Pisano and let your eyes follow its reliefs.

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Source: Web oficial - Opera della Primaziale Pisana