Pisa
Friday, February 26th, 2010A visit to Italy must include a visit to the most famous tower in the world. The leaning tower of Pisa surprised me a lot. I’ve seen a lot of pictures of the tower since childhood and I thought it was a really tall tower. In reality the tower was quite short!. Moreover I always thought the tower and the cathedral where isolated, alone and really far from the city because the pictures I’ve seen only had a beautiful green grass and the tower. In fact, the Piazza del Doumo o Piazza della Miracoli is in the middle of the city.
Leaning tower of Pisa
I climbed the tower. You can feel the tower has something wrong while climbing. Once you reach the top the view is fantastic! The cathedral is fantastic but it is mostly ignored because the leaning tower claims all the attention.
In Pisa I was hosted by Lia and her roommates. After dinner, they just took some instruments and improvised a music session. I’m not able to play any musical instrument and I’m absolutely fascinated with these people, it was so easy for them, just a game, to improvise and something beautiful without any preparation. In that house I met a guy who completely fitted the Italian stereotype. Loud, funny and hairy. He used millions of gestures while speaking. He is Sicilian, which makes sense. Southern Italians are the people that came to my mind when I think about Italian people. It happens the same in Spain, when foreigners people think about Spanish people they don’t think about somebody like me but the typical Spanish you can easily find in Southern Spain.
Surfing Lia's couch
