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If you’re looking for a Pisa hotel, you’ll want to do some preliminary researches, though the city centre is marvellously small and contained. A good guidebook, a plan and a sense of purpose will get you a long way.

So what’s to see for those looking for a Pisa hotel? Lying on the banks of the River Arno, close to Italy’s Tyrrhenian coast, the city of Pisa is very ancient - there was certainly a city here in the fifth century BC, as continuing archaeological excavations confirm. And this was a thriving Roman town and port. But it is in the early Middle Ages that Pisa became powerful, a mighty naval empire which attacked North Africa, the Saracens and Carthage. And it’s from the years between 1000 and 1300 that the riches were won which saw the superb development of Pisa as a city - with much of it remaining to this day.

Central to this is the Campo (or Piazza) dei Miracoli, the ‘field of miracles’, with the magnificent Duomo or cathedral (which in its building invented the style of ‘Pisan Romanesque’) and its attendant Baptistery, Camposanto and of course the Leaning Tower. The Baptistery leans too, just a half degree or so, toward the Duomo, so you’ll have to be sharp eyed to notice. Pisa also has a clutch of superb medieval churches and palazzi, excellent museums and galleries. Note that you shouldn’t limit your search for a Pisa hotel to the centro storico … there are some superb hotels in the countryside around too and it can take just minutes to get into the city.

Find listings for a Pisa hotel here, both within the old town and in the surrounding province of the same name (in Tuscany region).