Located in a historically significant area of the town, it was completely destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt in 1956 with its original shape.
The square located in the town centre is better known as Berlina square. During the Middleage it was seat of the fruit and vegetable market.
This ancient square located in the heart of Pisa, hidden among the town alleys, was built to host the town barn.
Communly called Santa Caterina square due to its proximity to the homonym church, is one of the green areas of Pisa. The statue rising in its heart represents Pietro Leopoldo I di Lorena.
Nowadays put to use as graphic museum, in its inside are visible remains of the house-towers dated back to the XIII and XIV Centuries which formed the original nucleus of the compound.
The first building was built in about 1211 by Agnello and Alberto, followers of Saint Francesco.
This Romanesque-Pisan church has inside the side chapels works of art by Aurelio Lomi, Arturo Salimbeni and Alessandro Tiarini.
According to recent studies the spiral staircase was made in collusion with the geometrical learning of the great pisan mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci.