Eating.... Pisa? In Tuscany, Italy

If there's two memorable things we will remember about our day in Pisa it will be firstly the horrific time a biting ant fell into Kara's shirt and the terrible aftermath it caused but more enjoyably our fabulous Pisa pizza! 
We thought that must be a thing to do right? Eat pizza by the leaning tower of Pisa? Hahaha! On our way through the central city towards the Piazza del Duomo we bought a large salsiccia pizza, cheesy and covered in juicy sausage and then we marched quickly on through the large curving streets to see this old famous leaning bell tower! 

One large Salsiccia pizza

The grand tower of Pisa

At the tower, it was of course super busy being the peak of summer season and we just plonked down on the grass and ate our aaammmmazing pizza while we laughed at all the people posing. But no one else was eating pizza?? 

The tower was bigger and whiter and more leany than we thought it would be and we were surprised to not see any cables- but apparently they took those off aaages ago! We also didn't realise that the tower has actually been leaning right from when they started building it. You could imagine them during construction like;

'hey big Gio, it's a bit off, aye' 

'oh yeh, nah.... no worries, we'll just balance it a bit in the middle' 

'K, sweet as'

and this went on for generations... somehow they just kept building, it just seems a little odd they didn't just start again, but then it did take 199years to build.

I'm kicking it right?

How about now?

Kara and the tower!

Check that lean! 

Pisa, the city, was surprisingly larger than we thought it would be, similar to other cities full of gelaterias and pizzerias and tourists. Other than the leaning tower of Pisa there was quite a lot to see. Like the Palazzo della Carovana where we ate some fruity gelato and of course, inescapably a solid ton of churches and museums! 

Heading down Via Roma

Inside the shops full of goodies! 

One interesting fact that we like about Pisa is that it's so old, so established and for such a long time that no one knows where Pisa's name originated. It's only relatively recently that they know through archeological findings the origin of the city. It was way back, sometime in the 5th century BC when the coastal sea was further inland that they have found evidence of a Etruscan Necropolis (Etruscan people are believed to be the first humans in the 'Tuscany' region dating as far back as 9th century BC and a Necropolis is a form of cemetery). 

Palazzo della Carovana

Later when the Romans came and conquered they wrote about the city which they even considered and described as 'an old city'. Under Roman rule the city flourished and grew into a large maritime port, although today the sea is over nine kilometers away from its central district. 

Here are a few more photos from Pisa! Glad we visited and ticked off this box!

Tot siens,
John and Kara

Looking down Fiume Arno