Your visit to the monuments of the impressive Square of Miracles in Pisa, In the Italian Tuscany, has great centers of attraction the famous tower, the great building of the Duomo, and even the Baptistery. But there is another monument.
I mean the Cemetery, which when you arrive at the square you will recognize by its long marble wall with 42 blind arches that closes it on its north side.
And also because in said building, in front of the tower of Pisa, find the ticket offices to buy the tickets that will allow you to visit these monuments.
As you can imagine, the Pisa Cemetery It is a large and peculiar cemetery, which has had numerous vicissitudes throughout history, and now during your visit you can only intuit the grandeur that it undoubtedly had in the past.
Construction of the Camposanto began in 1278, but was not completed until almost 200 years later.
The building is actually a huge rectangular cloister, with a meadow in the center and long, very high galleries with beautiful Gothic arches, which gives it enormous grandeur.
At Pisa Cemetery Initially it housed sarcophagi from the Roman era, which were scattered throughout the cathedral, and which had been used by citizens of Pisa for their graves.
These sarcophagi were placed outdoors, in the central meadow of the cloister, while the floor of the interior galleries were occupied by more modest tombs.
In the following centuries the most illustrious Pisans were buried, as teachers of the University of Pisa or family members doctors.
Since the 14th century, the large walls of the Camposanto galleries were decorated with paintings of religious themes, such as the Triumph of Death, Universal Judgment o Old Testament Stories.
Finally, in the 19th century it became one of the first public museums in Europe.
However, during the Napoleonic era, many of the sarcophagi and frescoes of this great cemetery were transferred to France, which accelerated the process of degradation and decay that the monument had already been dragging on, and of which, as you will see during your visit, barely has recovered.
Of course, the biggest blow that the Pisa Cemetery in this degradation process were the effects of an incendiary bomb dropped by the Germans during the Second World War, in 1944, which dramatically affected the projects to recover the frescoes that were then underway.
Visiting hours of the Camposanto de Pisa
The Visiting hours of the Pisa Cemetery They vary according to the different times of the year, and, for example, in December and January you can visit it between 10 a.m. and 17 p.m., and from April to September, between 8 a.m. and 20 p.m.
The ticket prices They are marked by the tariff system established to visit the monuments of the Piazza dei Milagros (access to the Duomo is free and climbing the tower costs 18 euros), so, if, for example, you want to visit the Baptistery and the Camposanto , it will cost you 7 euros, compared to 5 euros if you visit only the Camposanto.
Here you have more photos of the Pisa Cemetery.
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