Un posto che, nella tradizione, offre a chi viaggia un rifugio, una sosta, un ristoro, dove ricaricarsi per poter proseguire il viaggio oppure un luogo da dove \u00e8 possibile iniziare un viaggio. Alla Locanda San Ginese i letti sono molto comodi e le camere sono veramente spaziose (ecco perch\u00e9 \u201croom\u201d). Le nostre colazioni sono abbondanti, affettuose e fantasiose e anche i vostri amici a 4 zampe saranno sempre ospiti graditi.<\/p>\n","modified":"2019-11-19T13:47:33","color":"#dd3333","icon":"","noDetails":false,"noInteraction":false,"imageGallery":[{"src":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bb-san-ginese-1-1024x493.jpg","id":3911,"caption":"bb-san-ginese"}],"image":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/locanda_san_ginese-300x250.jpg","accessibility":{"mobility":{"check":false,"description":""},"hearing":{"check":false,"description":""},"vision":{"check":false,"description":""},"cognitive":{"check":false,"description":""},"food":{"check":false,"description":""}},"reachability":{"by_bike":{"check":false,"description":""},"on_foot":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_car":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_public_transportation":{"check":false,"description":""}},"related_url":["http:\/\/www.locandasanginese.com"],"locale":"it","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/3905","wp_edit":"http:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=3905&action=edit","translations":{"en":{"id":3914,"name":"Locanda San Ginese","web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/\/locanda-san-ginese\/?lang=en","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/3914","description":"
A place where you’ll find a rest, or else where to start your journey from: comfortable beds, big rooms, special breakfasts. Your pets are welcome<\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/locanda-san-ginese\/","addr:street":"Via di San Ginese ","addr:housenumber":"266","addr:postcode":" 55061 ","addr:city":"Capannori (LU) ","contact:phone":"+39 347 3724772","contact:email":"masbond@gmail.com","opening_hours":"","capacity":"","address":"Via di San Ginese , 266 Capannori (LU) ","sequence":1},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.588802699999974,43.7928732]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"id":912,"name":"Frantoio Sociale Vicopisano","description":"
Prende nome dal ruscello (Rio Grifone ) che scorre a lato del frantoio e che fino al secolo scorso faceva girare le sue macine. Le olive, raccolte rigorosamente a mano, sono qui immesse nella modernissima linea di frangitura a freddo ( 26\u00b0 ), dove si svolgono tutti i passaggi: pesatura; defoliazione; lavaggio; molitura; gramola; decanter “Leopard Pieralisi a 2 fasi”; centrifuga.
\nQui si effettuano i controlli rigorosi e continui del livello di acidit\u00e0, perossidi e polifenoli di ogni lotto: misure indispensabili per rilevare ogni possibile difetto nel prodotto finito. L\u2019 olio extravergine di oliva, \u00e8 poi filtrato e stoccato in conche di acciaio inox in ambiente protetto e mantenuto a temperatura costante di 18\u00b0, fino all\u2019 imbottigliamento appena prima della commercializzazione.<\/p>\n","modified":"2019-10-05T13:12:41","color":"","icon":"","noDetails":false,"noInteraction":false,"image":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180323_120445-1024x768.jpg","taxonomy":{"webmapp_category":[145]},"accessibility":{"mobility":{"check":false,"description":""},"hearing":{"check":false,"description":""},"vision":{"check":false,"description":""},"cognitive":{"check":false,"description":""},"food":{"check":false,"description":""}},"reachability":{"by_bike":{"check":false,"description":""},"on_foot":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_car":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_public_transportation":{"check":false,"description":""}},"related_url":["http:\/\/www.vicopisanolio.it\/index-lingua-1.html"],"locale":"it","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/912","wp_edit":"http:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=912&action=edit","translations":{"en":{"id":5718,"name":"Vicopisano comunity water mill","web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/\/vicopisano-comunity-water-mill\/?lang=en","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/5718","description":"
It takes its name from the stream (Rio Grifone) which flows alongside the oil mill and which until the last century made its mills turn. The olives, rigorously picked by hand, are placed here in the very modern cold pressing line (26 \u00b0), where all the steps take place: weighing; defoliation; wash; milling; brakes; “Leopard Pieralisi 2-phase” decanter; centrifuge.
\nHere rigorous and continuous checks are carried out on the level of acidity, peroxides and polyphenols of each batch: indispensable measures to detect any possible defect in the finished product. The extra virgin olive oil is then filtered and stored in stainless steel basins in a protected environment and kept at a constant temperature of 18 \u00b0, until bottling just before marketing.<\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/frantoio-sociale\/","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"(+39) 050.79.60.05","contact:email":"info@vicopisanolio.it","opening_hours":"","capacity":"","sequence":2},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.58429181,43.70647306]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"id":1000,"name":"La Fabbrica del Carbone","description":"
Con le sue strutture lacerate ed i macchinari erosi dalla ruggine, quel luogo \u00e8 in grado di suscitare un forte potere suggestivo ed evocare sensazioni e riflessioni che trascendono la superficie degli oggetti.<\/p>\n
La storia di questo singolare agglomerato di edifici e di vicende umane ha inizio intorno al 1858, quando il proprietario terriero Leopoldo Silvatici prese possesso di un vasto appezzamento agricolo sottostante il colle San Jacopo e costeggiato dal rio Grifone. Conosciuto anche come rio di Lupeta, questo piccolo corso d\u2019acqua, nonostante la sua portata modesta, aveva permesso in quella zona lo sviluppo di piccole attivit\u00e0 legate all\u2019acqua e all\u2019energia idrica. Sfruttando questa opportunit\u00e0, il Silvatici dette il via alla costruzione di un grande fabbricato a pianta rettangolare, di cui ancora oggi \u00e8 possibile ammirare l\u2019aspetto solido e imponente, destinandolo all\u2019uso di frantoio. Allo scopo di sopperire alle eventuali carenze idriche del modesto rio ed assicurare alla ruota del frantoio un apporto d\u2019acqua costante, vennero realizzate due gore di grande capienza. A queste ne verr\u00e0 successivamente aggiunta una terza. All\u2019attivit\u00e0 del frantoio venne affiancata, dopo qualche anno, quella del mulino, svolta in un\u2019altra ala del medesimo fabbricato. Sin dagli esordi e per tutta la seconda met\u00e0 dell\u2019800, sia il frantoio che il mulino trasformarono una grande quantit\u00e0 di prodotto, permettendo ai Silvatici di ottenere cospicui profitti. Successivamente, per\u00f2, la produzione sub\u00ec un calo sostanziale sino a giungere nei primi anni del \u2018900 ad una fase di grave crisi. Nuovi mulini, dotati di tecnologie avanzate, erano infatti stati costruiti nelle aree prospicienti la raccolta, eliminando cos\u00ec per gli utenti l\u2019onere del trasporto: di conseguenza le richieste di molitura e frangitura nei confronti dei Silvatici erano fortemente diminuite. Giuseppe Silvatici, succeduto a Leopoldo, decise di cessare attivit\u00e0 cos\u00ec poco redditizie e mise in vendita tutta la propriet\u00e0. Il 2 marzo 1934 Nicolo Crastan, comproprietario della nota azienda alimentare pontederese, acquist\u00f2 il complesso.<\/p>\n
Date le scarse probabilit\u00e0 di profitto, Crastan decise di abbandonare l\u2019attivit\u00e0 del mulino per intraprenderne un\u2019altra, che in quel momento godeva di una discreta richiesta: la produzione carbonifera. Dovendo far fronte alle mutate esigenze produttive, il nuovo proprietario fece edificare, fra il 1934 ed il 1940, una serie di fabbricati adiacenti al nucleo originario del frantoio. Nacquero in quel momento quei corpi di fabbrica in muratura e con copertura a capanna, adibiti a magazzino, che ancora oggi sorgono lungo i confini della propriet\u00e0 e ne caratterizzano l\u2019aspetto. Altri manufatti di analoga fattura si trovano sul lato opposto, nei pressi della riva sinistra del rio Grifone. Il frantoio, dotato di ampi volumi, fu riutilizzato in parte come sede degli uffici, in parte come magazzino per lo stoccaggio del carbone. In contrasto stridente col resto dei fabbricati, pur essendone coevi, risultano i due capannoni destinati a contenere i forni impiegati nella nuova produzione. Attraverso uno dei cancelli laterali, ancora oggi \u00e8 possibile scorgere il loro profilo aguzzo e plumbeo spezzato verticalmente dalle linee nere dei due fumaioli di scarico. In breve tempo, quel frantoio cos\u00ec perfettamente armonizzato con l\u2019ambiente circostante, attraverso una traumatica superfetazione si era trasformato in uno strano groviglio di edifici eterogenei ammassati l\u2019uno a ridosso dell\u2019altro, in totale distonia con i dolci colli di ulivi e cipressi dei Monti Pisani. L\u2019attivit\u00e0 si incentrava sulla produzione del carbone vegetale, tramite l\u2019utilizzo della brace prodotta dalla combustione di legna proveniente dai boschi circostanti. Il prodotto era destinato principalmente al riscaldamento domestico, in particolare agli ‘scaldaletto’, al tempo unico conforto durante le stagioni fredde. La produzione carbonifera dei Crastan venne interrotta nei primi anni della Seconda Guerra Mondiale quando, a seguito degli esiti del conflitto, l\u2019economia italiana sub\u00ec un tracollo. Durante il periodo bellico l\u2019area venne utilizzata in vari modi. I magazzini antistanti il frantoio furono adibiti ad ‘Ammasso dell\u2019olio e del grano di Vicopisano’, del quale sono tutt\u2019ora visibili i resti dell\u2019insegna. Nella palazzina a destra del frantoio si progett\u00f2 di trasferire gli uffici della Piaggio da Pontedera, dove la vicinanza con la stazione ferroviaria, bersaglio dei bombardamenti alleati, costituiva un concreto pericolo. L\u2019avanzata alleata e la conseguente cessazione dei bombardamenti fecero venire meno le necessit\u00e0 del trasferimento. Gli uffici non furono terminati e rimasero dismessi. Vennero poi utilizzati come deposito di fortuna.<\/p>\n
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Also known as the Rio di Lupeta, this small stream, despite its modest flow, had allowed the development of small activities related to water and water energy in that area. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Silvatici started the construction of a large rectangular building, of which it is still possible to admire the solid and imposing appearance, destined for the use of an oil mill. In order to make up for any water shortages in the modest river and ensure a constant supply of water to the crusher wheel, two large capacity gores were built. A third will be added to these. After a few years, the mill activity was flanked by that of the mill, carried out in another wing of the same building. Since the beginning and throughout the second half of the 19th century, both the mill and the mill transformed a large quantity of product, allowing the Silvatici to obtain substantial profits. Subsequently, however, production suffered a substantial decrease until reaching a phase of serious crisis in the early 1900s. New mills, equipped with advanced technologies, had in fact been built in the areas facing the collection, thus eliminating the burden of transport for users: consequently the requests for milling and pressing against the Silvatici had greatly decreased. Giuseppe Silvatici, who succeeded Leopoldo, decided to cease activities so unprofitable and put all the property up for sale. On 2 March 1934 Nicolo Crastan, co-owner of the well-known Pontese food company, bought the complex.<\/p>\n Given the low probability of profit, Crastan decided to abandon the activity of the mill to undertake another one, which at the time enjoyed a fair demand: coal production. Faced with changing production needs, the new owner had a series of buildings built between 1934 and 1940 adjacent to the original core of the mill. At that time, those brick and gabled roof buildings were used as warehouses, which still stand along the borders of the property and characterize their appearance. Other artefacts of similar manufacture are located on the opposite side, near the left bank of the Rio Grifone. The oil mill, equipped with large volumes, was reused partly as an office location, partly as a warehouse for coal storage. In stark contrast to the rest of the buildings, while being coeval with them, there are the two sheds intended to contain the ovens used in the new production. Through one of the side gates, still today it is possible to see their pointed and leaden profile broken vertically by the black lines of the two exhaust smokestacks. In a short time, that oil mill so perfectly harmonized with the surrounding environment, through a traumatic superfetation had turned into a strange tangle of heterogeneous buildings piled close to each other, in total dystonia with the sweet hills of olive and cypress trees of the Pisan Mountains. The activity focused on the production of vegetable coal, through the use of the embers produced by the burning of wood from the surrounding woods. The product was mainly intended for domestic heating, in particular for ‘bed warmers’, the only time of comfort during the cold seasons. The coal production of the Crastans was stopped in the early years of the Second World War when, following the outcome of the conflict, the Italian economy collapsed. During the war period the area was used in various ways. The warehouses in front of the oil mill were used as “storage of Vicopisano oil and wheat”, of which the remains of the sign are still visible. In the building to the right of the oil mill, it was planned to transfer the Piaggio offices from Pontedera, where the proximity to the railway station, the target of the allied bombings, was a real danger. The Allied advance and the consequent cessation of the bombing made the need for the transfer disappear. The offices were not finished and remained abandoned. They were then used as a makeshift deposit.<\/p>\n (from leviedelbrigante.it)<\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/la-fabbrica-del-carbone\/","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"","contact:email":"","opening_hours":"","capacity":"","sequence":3},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.586500996806649,43.70430280119263]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"id":995,"name":"Pieve di S.Maria di Vicopisano","description":" It is the oldest and the main of the churches that were located in the immediate vicinity of Vico, and is the only one to have been built outside the walls, without the canonical orientation with the entrance facing west. In fact, the facade faces one of the castle’s entrance doors, Porta Maccioni, which later became the Rocca door. The church was named for the first time in 934, but it can be understood from this document that it existed for some time.<\/p>\n THE FACADE AND THE EXTERIOR THE INTERIOR THE DEPOSITION OF THE CROSS (13th cent.) THE FRESCOES (13th cent.) La citt\u00e0, fedele alla Repubblica Pisana, difesa da forti mura e protetta dalle acque del Fiume Serezza e dell’Arno, aveva resistito a nove mesi di assedio nei quali si susseguirono assalti condotti con bombarde, catapulte, torri mobili e arieti, ma alla fine si arrese per fame. I fiorentini entrarono cos\u00ec in possesso di un centro sulle rive dell\u2019Arno dal quale dominavano i commerci fluviali e il vicino ramo della Via Francigena controllando i flussi dei pellegrini, dei mercanti e le prospere campagne intorno alle pendici del Monte Pisano. Con la caduta nelle mani di Firenze si pens\u00f2 di rinforzare questa importante conquista per scoraggiare le mire dei vicini. Venne presa la decisione di costruire una fortezza che fosse imprendibile e scoraggiasse le insidie degli eserciti dei Visconti che da lucca minacciavano la Toscana. Il governo fiorentino commission\u00f2 al celebre architetto Filippo Brunelleschi il progetto della nuova opera difensiva. La proposta del Brunelleschi risult\u00f2 subito molto innovativa: alla presentazione di fronte alla commissione governativa della quale faceva parte anche il giovane condottiero Francesco Sforza, grazie a un modello in creta e legno, il celebre architetto convinse tutti per le soluzioni innovative progettate. The city, faithful to the Pisan Republic, defended by strong walls and protected by the waters of the River Serezza and the Arno, had endured nine months of siege in which assaults carried out with bombards, catapults, mobile towers and rams followed, but in the end he gave up on hunger. The Florentines thus came into possession of a center on the banks of the Arno from which river trade and the nearby branch of the Via Francigena dominated, controlling the flows of pilgrims, merchants and the prosperous countryside around the slopes of Mount Pisano. With the fall into the hands of Florence it was thought to reinforce this important conquest to discourage the sights of the neighbors. The decision was made to build a fortress that was impregnable and discouraged the pitfalls of the Visconti armies that threatened Tuscany from Lucca. The Florentine government commissioned the famous architect Filippo Brunelleschi to design the new defensive work. Brunelleschi’s proposal was immediately very innovative: at the presentation in front of the government commission which also included the young leader Francesco Sforza, thanks to a model in clay and wood, the famous architect convinced everyone for the innovative solutions designed. Sullo sperone roccioso a monte del paese di Caprona spicca la “torre degli Upezzinghi<\/a>“, copia ottocentesca<\/a> della torre dell’antico castello esistente alla met\u00e0 dell’XI secolo<\/a>, citato da Dante<\/a> (Inferno, XXI<\/a>, 94-96) e smantellato da Firenze<\/a> nel 1433<\/a>. La torre chiamata comunemente “Torretta” si trova sulla sommit\u00e0 di uno sperone roccioso, in una posizione altamente suggestiva che domina le pendici del monte Pisano<\/a>. Oggi \u00e8 in completo stato di abbandono e necessiterebbe di un’opera di messa in sicurezza.<\/p>\n All’incrocio fra via del ponte e via Dante Alighieri si trova una lapide storica che recita:<\/p>\n XXI AGOSTO MDCCCXCII<\/p>\n TRENTACINQUE ANNI ADDIETRO FRANCESCO LUPERI CENTONI PROPUGNAVA E LEGALMENTE OTTENEVA CHE LE ACQUE PLUVIALI DI QUESTO ANTICO BORGO SOTTO L’ALVEO DEL TORRENTE ZAMBRA PASSANDO NEL SOTTOSTANTE FOSSO – VICINAJA – DEFLUISSERO MA DIFETTO DI LEGGI O EGOISMO DI POTENTI I NECESSARI LAVORI LUNGAMENTE IMPEDIRONO. PROGREDITI I TEMPI LE LEGGI E LE OPINIONI AJUTANDO PER LE ASSIDUE CURE DEL COMPAESANO ETTORE SIGHIERI AI PUBBLICI LAVORI MUNICIPALI PREPOSTO L’OPERA TANTO AGOGNATA NEL LUGLIO 1892 FINALMENTE COMPIEVASI.<\/p>\n LA POPOLAZIONE CAPRONESE RICONOSCENTE QUESTO MARMO PONEVA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n La localit\u00e0 \u00e8 ricordata a partire dal 1024<\/a>. Il castello di Caprona sub\u00ec una sortita ad opera dei soldati fiorentini il 16 agosto del 1289<\/a>, azione a cui partecip\u00f2 anche il giovane Dante Alighieri<\/a>, arruolato con altri quattrocento cavalieri nelle schiere di Nino Visconti<\/a>. Il sommo poeta citer\u00e0 la cittadina nel canto XXI dell’Inferno<\/a>, vv. 94-96.<\/p>\n
\nThe current construction is of the XII century. and it is a well-preserved example of a Romanesque-Pisan church characterized by a basilica plan with a single apse. The masonry is made of verrucana stone and the facade is divided into two orders superimposed by a horizontal frame. In the upper part, decorated with hanging arches, a mullioned window opens. The lower part, where three portals open, is enriched by half-columns that support hanging arches: the latter are surmounted by oculi and enclose rhombuses carved with geometric and plant motifs. In evidence, at the top of the left pilaster, a stone bas-relief, datable to the VIII-X century, probably represents an evangelical episode.
\nThe southern side, in which a single door opens, has four narrow single lancet windows at the top, one of which is decorated with a vine-vine motif with leaves. Both the side and the elevation of the central nave have hanging arches that enclose carved stones and rest on corbels decorated with human faces, animal figures and naturalistic motifs in relief. Note a series of medieval inscriptions engraved in the lower part of the masonry which denounce the presence in ancient times of a cemetery around the church. The northern side is instead devoid of decorations as the structures of the cloister and the house of the parish priest had to rest on this. The extensions of the side aisles and the bell tower date back to the 18th century.<\/p>\n
\nThe interior is divided into three naves with twelve granite columns with capitals of various shapes: the medieval ones are in pietra serena; the first, third and last on the left are in marble carved with acanthus leaves, the last two resting on fluted marble columns, and come from Roman buildings. Two pillars define the vast presbytery area where the main altar is located, rebuilt at the beginning of the twentieth century reusing ancient reliefs with plant and zoomorphic motifs, probably belonging to the early medieval church.<\/p>\n
\nIn the apse there is the majestic wooden group of the Deposition, dating back to the first two decades of the thirteenth century and with evident assonances with the other Deposition present in the Province of Pisa, that of Volterra. It constitutes one of the rare examples of this type of sacred representation, once very widespread, the only one of which almost all the original figures are preserved: only the heads of the angels are restored, some parts of the San Giovanni and the chalice. There are also traces of the ancient polychrome of the clothes. The characters depicted are (from left to right): the sorrowful Madonna, John of Arimathea who collects the body of Christ, the Nicodemus who takes the nails off his feet and St. John holding the Gospel in his hand. In addition to being one of the few remaining specimens, it is one of the most unique, since the figure of Christ is represented in an unusual, strongly arched and in the act of falling, proof that the artist who created this work had enough autonomy to detach from what were the models
\nusual, that is, the Christ still nailed to the Cross, approaching more “Gothic” models, with greater attention to the curved and sinuous line, which replaces the straight line and the typical rigidity of Romanesque art.<\/p>\n
\nThe massive warty walls retain fragments of thirteenth-century frescoes, recently restored. They represent scenes from the Gospel, and testify to the custom of illustrating the Sacred Stories, to make them better understood by the most crude and illiterate faithful (Biblia Pauperum) i. The cycle begins on the wall of the right nave, where the scenes of the Annunciation, the Visitation and the Nativity are recognized; probably follows the episode with Herod ordering the massacre of the innocent. Above the narrative scenes there are decorative motifs with scrolls and alternating checkered squares; below, fake drapery decorations. On the counter-fa\u00e7ade, two overlapping scenes are represented on the left: the Baptism of Christ is recognizable at the top, below St. George, the dragon and the princess; on the right the traces recovered from the restoration are not legible. On the wall of the right aisle two scenes have been restored: one depicts perhaps the Capture of Christ, the other the Pentecost. The whole cycle ended with the wooden deposition that put an end to the affair<\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/pieve-di-s-maria-di-vicopisano\/","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"","contact:email":"","opening_hours":"","capacity":"","sequence":4},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.583387911319733,43.70025818376576]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"id":1002,"name":"Rocca del Brunelleschi","description":"
\nPer realizzare la nuova opera l’abitato di Vicopisano fu pesantemente modificato: le chiese e i palazzi che si trovavano nell\u2019area della sommit\u00e0 del colle di Vico furono in buona parte abbattuti. La fortificazione del Brunelleschi incorpor\u00f2 nelle nuove atrutture la pre-esistente Torre di S. Maria (del XII secolo). Quest’ultima fu trasformata nel mastio dell’attuale Rocca. La tipologia della fortezza \u00e8 ancora medievale, con alte mura merlate poggiate su archetti con piombatoie per gettare pece greca infiammata e olio bollente sugli assalitori. Ma nel complessso difensivo ci sono anche molte innovazioni come l’abbondante uso di ponti levatoi destinati, quando ritirati, ad isolare le varie parti della fortezza nel caso il nemico fosse riuscito a penetrarvi. Per esempio, prima di accedere al cortile della Rocca, si doveva conquistare l\u2019antiporta munita di Ponte levatoio e di fossato. All’interno, in caso di perdita del cortile, i difensori potevano abbattere la scala poggiata su quattro esili archi che collega il cortile col cammino di ronda delle cortine. Se il nemico fosse riuscito a giungere fin sulle cortine, la difesa si sarebbe attestata nella torre: era possibile isolare la torre dal resto della fortificazione ritirando il ponte levatoio che collega il cammino di ronda con l\u2019unico ingresso della stessa. La torre, munita di propria cisterna e deposito di vettovaglie, poteva ancora resistere a lungo.
\nLa soluzione pi\u00f9 geniale ideata da Brunelleschi \u00e8 sicuramente il poderoso muraglione merlato che scende dalla Rocca fino ai piedi del Colle, dove termina con l’alta torre del Soccorso (21 m) edificata nelle vicinanze dell’Arno, che in quel periodo passava proprio sotto le mura di Vicopisano. Come suggerisce il nome della torre questa opera era destinata a evitare l’isolamento in caso di assedio garantendo l’approvvigionamento di viveri, armi e rinforzi via fiume in caso di assedio.
\nLe barche potevano approdare in una caletta, difesa da fortificazioni oggi scomparse, scaricare uomini e polveri che venivano fatte entrare da uno stretto portello, poi risalivano al secondo piano della torre, per accedere al muraglione e salire alla Rocca. Ma il Brunelleschi aveva pensato a tutto: infatti, se il nemico fosse riuscito a conquistare la Torre del Soccorso e avesse cercato di accedere alla rocca dal muraglione, si sarebbe trovato esposto al tiro d\u2019infilata proveniente dalla Rocca, ma soprattutto avrebbe trovato interrotto il collegamento fra il muraglione e il cammino di ronda delle cortine della Rocca da un’altro ponte levatoio, che apriva un varco di circa tre metri su uno strapiombo di quindici metri. Oggi sulla torre della rocca sventola di nuovo la bandiera pisana, ma non ci sono venti di guerra, soltanto visitatori che si arrampicano fino alla cima della fortezza per ammirare il panorama.
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\nTo build the new work, the town of Vicopisano was heavily modified: the churches and palaces that were in the area of \u200b\u200bthe top of the Vico hill were largely demolished. Brunelleschi’s fortification incorporated the pre-existing Tower of S. Maria (12th century) into the new structures. The latter was transformed into the keep of the current fortress. The typology of the fortress is still medieval, with high crenellated walls resting on arches with seals to cast inflamed Greek pitch and hot oil on the attackers. But in the defensive complex there are also many innovations such as the abundant use of drawbridges intended, when withdrawn, to isolate the various parts of the fortress in case the enemy managed to penetrate it. For example, before entering the courtyard of the fortress, you had to conquer the front door equipped with a drawbridge and a moat. Inside, in case of loss of the courtyard, the defenders could break down the staircase resting on four slender arches that connects the courtyard with the patrol walkway. If the enemy had managed to reach the curtains, the defense would have stood in the tower: it was possible to isolate the tower from the rest of the fortification by withdrawing the drawbridge that connects the patrol path with the only entrance of the same. The tower, equipped with its own cistern and supplies of provisions, could still last for a long time.
\nThe most ingenious solution designed by Brunelleschi is surely the mighty crenellated wall that descends from the Rocca to the foot of the Colle, where it ends with the high Soccorso tower (21 m) built near the Arno, which at that time passed right under the walls of Vicopisano. As the name of the tower suggests, this work was intended to avoid isolation in the event of a siege by guaranteeing the supply of food, weapons and reinforcements by river in the event of a siege.
\nThe boats could land in a cove, defended by fortifications that have now disappeared, unload men and dust that were brought in by a narrow hatch, then they went up to the second floor of the tower, to access the wall and climb to the Rocca. But Brunelleschi had thought of everything: in fact, if the enemy had succeeded in conquering the Torre del Soccorso and had tried to access the fortress from the wall, he would have found himself exposed to the pull shot from the Rocca, but above all he would have found the connection between the wall and the patrol path of the curtains of the Rocca from another drawbridge, which opened a passage of about three meters on a cliff of fifteen meters. Today the Pisan flag is flying over the tower of the fortress, but there are no winds of war, only visitors who climb to the top of the fortress to admire the view.
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