In 2008, the Opera della Primaziale Pisana and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore launched a joint initiative born under the sign of the Associazione delle Fabbricerie Italiane of which they are both members, to open during summer nights the monuments of the two Italian squares that are the most famous in the world for their architectural masterpieces.
Two belfry towers ideally facing each other, engaged in a silent conversation that tells the story of two cities, based on the same tradition and at the same time deeply imbued with two very distant cultures.
The scene is completed by the wing of the Old Cemetery of Pisa, a curtain wrapped north around the Piazza dei Miracoli, enclosing in the typical silence of an island of peace the masterpieces frescoed by the 14th – and 15th-century masters, works that are slowly coming back to decorate the pantheon of local gems after the time-consuming restoration work that has tried to repair the disastrous events of the last world war. No less significant is the choice of Florence, which during summer nights will receive its visitors in the suggestive atmosphere of the octagonal Baptistery of Saint John’s, a masterpiece of Florentine Romanesque art, embellished by wonderful mosaics on the dome and by the doors sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Andrea Pisano.
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