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Pisa is famous throughout the world for its Cathedral, Baptistery and Leaning Tower: 3 beautiful monuments all enclosed by the old city wall in the "Miracle Field", Piazza dei Miracoli. The buildings seem to shoot out of the grass, as if by some miracle, and especially if you walk in the square by the door in the wall by Piazza Manin. But if the visit to the "Miracle Field" were a must, it would be a pity to miss the rest of the city. Here it is the Miracles Field, the famous green plaza where there are the most famous Pisa's monuments. On the left, marked with #1, there is the long gallery that embrace the Holy Field "Camposanto", on the northern side of the plaza. Depending on the legend The Archbishop Ubaldo Lanfranchi had the Crusaders bring the white stone from Mount Calvary, 1203, to build the wall of the monumental cemetery. Before its destruction in 1944 the cemetery was decorated by the largest amount of medieval frescoes in the world in terms of surface area. The sections that still survive, or that have been restored, including The Triumph of Death and The Last Judgment may now be visited. With the #2 we show the Cappella del Pozzo, built in 1594. The external part of the Baptistery, #3, has a tremendous variety of details. The interior, by contrast radiates a simple elegance with the baptism spring, #4, followed by the pulpit, #5; first ever free-standing pulpit created by Nicola Pisano (1260), one of the most important Late Romanesque works of art in Italy. The actual dome of the Baptistery hemispheric, #6, but in the project of the 14th century was pyramid shape. 
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