IN AND AROUND PISA

JEWISH CEMETERY IN PISA

Jewish Cemetery Largo Coconut Griffi 10 Pisa

The cemetery is located behind the Square of Miracles, Baptistry side.
The Jewish cemetery of Pisa, located on different levels of land, is included in the monumental complex of Piazza dei Miracoli, it dates back to 1648 and is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Europe: there are memories preserved ancient tombs of significant historical and artistic value, with not only written in Hebrew and Italian but also Spanish and Portuguese of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French, German and Czech.
There are famous people buried in the politics and culture.
From the artistic side of the cemetery has an extraordinary repertoire: from mounds of Iberian tradition cuboid, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the monuments of the early nineteenth century Empire style; from Gothic tabernacles of the nineteenth century, the Art Nouveau styles and umbertino of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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