Lungarno Mediceo
Riverside promenade lined by a Medici-era market arcade where wool, silk and grain once changed hands.
This guide to Lungarno Mediceo in Pisa starts with the twelve marble pillars that are all that remain of the Logge di Banchi, the market hall Grand Duke Ferdinando I ordered built in the early sixteen hundreds, designed by Bernardo Buontalenti and raised by builder Cosimo Pugliani over a demolished medieval quarter. You'll hear how the arcade organized wool traders, silk merchants, money changers and grain dealers into a working geography of commerce, and about the navicellai, boatmen who poled flat-bottomed barges loaded with goods down the Arno toward Livorno. Stand near the Ponte di Mezzo end of the promenade to match the guide's vantage point.
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