Chiesa Universitaria di San Frediano

This guide to the Chiesa Universitaria di San Frediano in Pisa traces the church's life since it was first recorded in ten sixty-one, from a pilgrims' hospital run by Camaldolese monks to the Knights of Saint Stephen and the teaching Barnabites. It follows how the building became Pisa's official university church in nineteen ninety-nine under Jesuit fathers, and how a student group founded here in nineteen seventy-two still fills its rooms today. The guide lingers on what that looks like week to week, from Saturday dinners to volleyball tournaments in the courtyard. Look up at the Romanesque blind arcades before you look back down at the hall still set for dinner.