6/7/2010 - Livorno, Italy (Easy Pisa tour)
The port of Livorno was a nice little town, which gets overlooked a lot because of it's proximity to Pisa and to Florence (our guide pointed this out to us, I think she lives in Livorno)
The main part of our tour was seeing the Leaning Tower of Pisa - which took about 45mins to reach. The bus parked quite a distance from the main part of Pisa and we boarded a little trolley car that took us the rest of the way.
As advertised - the tower really does lean! the church/tower complex was quite lovely, with some relics remaining from when it was a port of the Roman empire!
This picture below is of a roman symbol found around this part of the world - Romulus and Remus with the Wolf (google it and you'll find quite a bit of info)
Pisa is quite a nice place, the town itself is quite pretty, with lots of old buildings/churches/etc.
It was only a short half day tour today and it was very nice to see something that I've only read about or seen in pictures!
The main part of our tour was seeing the Leaning Tower of Pisa - which took about 45mins to reach. The bus parked quite a distance from the main part of Pisa and we boarded a little trolley car that took us the rest of the way.
As advertised - the tower really does lean! the church/tower complex was quite lovely, with some relics remaining from when it was a port of the Roman empire!This picture below is of a roman symbol found around this part of the world - Romulus and Remus with the Wolf (google it and you'll find quite a bit of info)Pisa is quite a nice place, the town itself is quite pretty, with lots of old buildings/churches/etc.It was only a short half day tour today and it was very nice to see something that I've only read about or seen in pictures! 
Comments