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The towns between Pisa airport and anywhere better
Comuni whose nearest city is Pisa, within 45 minutes of the airport, for the hours between a landing and a plan. The catalogue holds 9, all shown.
Table no. 9 · Ranked by min · 9 towns
Pisa airport unloads its passengers toward the tower, and the tower sends them home. In between, mostly unvisited, sit the towns whose nearest city is Pisa itself, none more than forty five minutes out.
The catalogue holds a handful of them, all shown here. If your flight lands at an awkward hour, any one of them beats an airport hotel and most of them beat the queue at the tower.
- 1.
San Giuliano Terme8 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyA thermal spa ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae. - 2.
Pisa16 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyMaritime republic on the Arno, twelve kilometers from the Ligurian Sea, with the leaning bell tower at the center of a single UNESCO-listed walled compound. - 3.
Pontedera25 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyThe Valdera's working capital on the Pisa–Florence line, where Piaggio turned a bombed aircraft plant into the birthplace of the Vespa in 1946. - 4.
Viareggio29 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyThe Versilia capital, a Carnival city on the Tuscan coast that turned into a Belle Époque resort when the railway arrived. - 5.Vicopisano33 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyA medieval river port rebuilt by Brunelleschi in 1434 after Florence took the town from Pisa.
- 6.
Lucca34 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyThe provincial capital ringed by four kilometers of intact sixteenth-century walls, birthplace of Puccini and the only fully walled Italian city of its scale. - 7.
Forte dei Marmi38 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyThe Versilia luxury beach built around an eighteenth-century marble-loading fort, with 99 bagni concessions and a Wednesday market that draws Milan. - 8.
Pietrasanta41 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyThe marble-processing town under the Apuan Alps, worked by Michelangelo, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Fernando Botero. - 9.
Camaiore44 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyThe Versilia commune that runs from the mountains to the sea, a Roman Campus Maior on the Via Francigena with a beach at its western end.
NINE OF THE TOP NINE ARE IN TUSCANY
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