Pisa

The next morning we took a train from Lucca to Pisa to, of course, see the leaning tower. We quickly realized by looking at the buildings in this city that several are actually leaning - not just the tower (though it is the best know of the “leaners”). We learned that the Leaning Tower of Pisa, while a famous tourist attraction today, originally gained game because it is where Galileo performed some of his experiments with gravity. Yet here all the tourists stand oogling the building because it’s not straight and taking what were originally creative photos with it. We can’t speak from a pedestal though, as we did the same thing and snapped a few photos ourselves :-).

We took a stroll through the cemetery where Galileo is entombed along with many archbishops and wealthy people. Pisa is small and really the only cool thing about it is the section with the leaning tower and the baptistry which is called the Field of Miracles. The baptistry is neat and has amazing acoustics. We heard a singing demonstration inside and, of course, Kristen tried out a few notes herself just to listen!

After we finished snapping our pictures (of us trying to hold the leaning tower up or pushing it over), we took a train back to Lucca for our last night in the walled city. We are getting quite good at understanding Italian trains and figuring out the time schedules despite the Italian language.

After exploring Pisa for a little while we headed back to Lucca for our last night out on the terrace. The next morning we were off to Levanto!