Example sentences for: pisa

How can you use “pisa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The décor celebrates Florentine power — Vasari frescoes of victories over Siena and Pisa and Michelangelo’s Victory statue.

  • The second most charming and lively of the coast’s resorts, Amalfi was once a powerful rival to the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa, with trading posts in the 10th and 11th centuries in Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus, Byzantium, and Tunis.

  • Inside, left of the baptismal font and altar, is Pisa’s greatest work of sculpture, a hexagonal marble pulpit by Nicola Pisano, father of the Giovanni who designed the cathedral pulpit.

  • In its heyday from the 11th to the 13th centuries, Pisa created a powerful maritime empire down the Tyrrhenian coast and in Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.

  • Behind the alternating rocky and sandy coastline, from the marble quarries of Carrara, the mountain chain of the Apennines reaches south into Tuscany — where lie the ageless beauties of Pisa, Lucca, Florence, and Siena, not to mention the smaller, and arguably more magical, hillside towns of Montepulciano, Volterra, and San Gimignano.


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