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Favorite thing: We rented a car for part of our trip. Mostly, to tour around Tuscany. Many of the major city centers do not allow you to drive in them. When you go to Pisa, you may park the car along the side of the road but make sure you obtain a parking ticket and place it on your dash board. The ticket machines will say "Biglietto Ticket". It's always a good idea to carry a few €1.00 coins with you.

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Favorite thing: Pisa is not a tourist town!!
Hard to believe it, if you see the crowded Piazza dei Miracoli. But it is a fact, outside the main attraction of the city, not too many tourist are interested in staying here for a longer period of time. And Pisa itself does absolutely nothing to attract the tourists and invite them to stay.

The Pisani have a bad reputation in Tuscany: “better a corpse in the house than a Pisan at the door” says a famous Tuscan proverb.
Therefore, unlike other Tuscan towns, here you have a higher chance to see the daily life of local people, that is more authentic than that of Florence or Siena.
Though Pisa is a small town, but one with an attitude, having a colourful history of belligerence and conquests. The typical Pisan is generaly unpretentious but - who knows, why - hostile to all those who are pretentious.

Fondest memory: Dante Alighieri called Pisa as cursed people, because of the fate of a Pisan leader who was starved to death for treason, together with his sons and grandsons, whom Dante places in Hell.

Fondest memory: My fondest memory was when I was buying a souvenir and as soon as the vendor knew I was Mexican, he started to sing a Mexican song called 'El Rey' and we sang along! Then he gave me a postcard as a gift and told me he was in love of Mexico. Those are the little moments that make life so enjoyable :)

Favorite thing: Tourism Offices

* Ufficio Informazioni Duomo
Piazza Arcivescovado, 8 (in front of the Cathedral)

- Tel.: (+39) 050 56 04 64
- Fax: (+39) 050 831 06 26
- E mail: duomo@pisa.turismo.toscana.it

* Ufficio Informazioni Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (close to central station)
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 16

- Tel.: (+39) 050 42 291
- Fax: (+39) 050 50 40 67
- E mail: stazione@pisa.turismo.toscana.it

- Internet: www.pisaturismo.it

* For the whole list of Tourism Offices:
- www.enit.it/comuniris.asp?Lang=ES&ID=1295&Luogo=PISA®ione=TOSCANA
- www.pisaturismo.it/site/qryTabelle_consorzi.asp

Favorite thing: I loved Pisa and intend to go another time but this time I won't go in January due to the fact that restaurants or cafetterias close really early ... like 6pm, so you can't just go to the hotel and rest a bit and go out for a drink for for dinner. That was the only thing that was disappointing but on the whole I really enjoyed my stay.... I suggest a relaxing break in Pisa.

Fondest memory: The best thing is to walk along the Arno River, apart from relaxing and beautiful scenery, it is romantic.

Favorite thing: when in tuscany, its better to make florence as your base and book a tour to go to pisa. there`s not much to see in pisa except for the tower.

when we were there we booked a walking tour of pisa. check it out at www.guide.pisa.it

Favorite thing: As they say, nothing in this world is free.

Be prepared to pay heavy prices for the tickets to climb the tower and to visit the monuments.

It costs 15 Euros to climb the tower and they only let you in at a fixed time. I couldn't climb because I had to catch a 5 PM train back to Milan and the next available slot was at 6:30 PM. Anyways, if you check the photograph attached, you can get an idea of the prices. I paid 6 Euros to visit the Cathedral and the Baptistery...

Favorite thing: Piazza dei Cavalieri is beautiful square harmoniously enclosed by a architectonic structure of the 16th and 17th centuries. When Pisa fell under the Medici, the whole square was transformed by Vasari, by order of Cosimo I. He made it the seat of the Order of the Knights of St. Stephen founded by him in order to defend the Tyrhenian coast from the Muslim raids.