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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.
The décor celebrates Florentine power — Vasari frescoes of victories over Siena and Pisa and Michelangelo’s Victory statue.
Pisa sided with the Normans in Sicily and profits from its new commercial empire in the western Mediterranean paid for its magnificent cathedral, baptistery, and campanile (today’s Leaning Tower).
It dislodged Pisa in the western Mediterranean, whittled away at Venice’s hold on eastern ports, and set up colonies on the Black Sea for trade with Russia and faraway Cathay.
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.