Chiesa di San Sisto - Pisa, Italy
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N 43° 43.172 E 010° 23.939
32T E 612689 N 4841673
San Sisto is a Medieval church in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
Waymark Code: WMKEVX
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 04/02/2014
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"It was consecrated in 1133 but previously it had been already used as the seat of the most important notary act of the Pisan commune. It was built in a Pisane-Romanesque style in stone.
The façade is divide in three parts divided by pilaster strips, with a mullioned window and arches in the upper part which continues on the whole exterior. Notable is the typical local decoration with Islamic ceramic basins from the 10th-11th centuries (copies; the original are in the Museum of St. Matthew in the city).
The interior has a nave and two aisles, divided by columns with ancient Roman capitals, with hut-shaped ceiling. It houses also an Arabic tombstone, the copy of a 14th-century Madonna with Child and the rudder of a Pisane galley (13th-14th centuries)."
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