Pisa Cathedral

Cathedral consecrated in 1118 in the middle of the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, next to the baptistery and the famous leaning tower (which is its bell tower). Designed by the master builder Buschetto and continued by Rainaldo, it mixes Lombard Romanesque with Byzantine, Islamic and classical elements that arrived through Pisa’s military campaigns around the Mediterranean. Its front of four stacked tiers of open arcading became the model for what is now called Pisan Romanesque.