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The Baptistery
The Baptistery
The Baptistery of Pisa
The Baptistery is one of the four buildings that constitute the monumental complex of Piazza dei Miracoli and it is famous in Pisa because Galileo Galilei was baptised here in 1564. It was started on August 15, 1152, but its completion in the course of time was characterized by changes carried out into different periods. The original project of the Baptistery belonged to the architect Diotisalvi, who was thought as one of the possible planners of the Leaning Tower, but the works were soon interrupted and restarted one century later under the supervision of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano with radical alterations in comparison to the early ideas. The building was finished at the end of the XIV century. This is the reason of the particular mix of architectural styles that characterizes the Baptistery and that is possible to find also in other works of the Piazza dei Miracoli.
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