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The towns between Pisa airport and anywhere better
Ten towns: what each is best for, what a home costs, and the catch. A square meter runs from €1,100 in Pontedera to €11,100 in Forte dei Marmi.
Comuni whose nearest city is Pisa, within 45 minutes of the airport, for the hours between a landing and a plan. The catalogue holds 10, all shown.
Table no. 9 · Ranked by min · 10 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 · TuscanyBest for a soak. The comune has thermal baths.homes €1,400 to €2,050 a m² in the center · 30,832 peopleA thermal spa ten kilometers from Pisa, where the springs were bathed since the Romans called them Aquae Pisanae.
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Pisa16 min from PisaPisa · TuscanyBest for a long lunch. Food guides list four tables here.homes €1,900 to €2,950 a m² in the center · 89,422 peopleMaritime 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 · TuscanyBest for everyday life on foot. Nine of the ten everyday services we look for are mapped within 500 meters of the center.homes €1,100 to €1,650 a m² in the center · 29,893 peopleThe 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 · TuscanyBest for a trip without a car. The train stops in the commune.homes €2,400 to €4,500 a m² in the center · 60,618 peopleThe 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 · TuscanyBest for a slow weekend. The Touring Club gives it its orange flag for small inland towns.homes €1,150 to €1,750 a m² in the center · 8,557 peopleA medieval river port rebuilt by Brunelleschi in 1434 after Florence took the town from Pisa.
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Lucca34 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyBest for a stage of a long walk. The Via Francigena passes through.homes €2,100 to €3,500 a m² in the center · 89,002 peopleThe 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 · TuscanyBest for a swim. The comune's beach holds a Blue Flag.homes €5,100 to €11,100 a m² in the center · 6,666 peopleThe Versilia luxury beach built around an eighteenth-century marble-loading fort, with 99 bagni concessions and a Wednesday market that draws Milan.The catch: Homes in the center cost up to €11,100 a m². - 8.
Pietrasanta41 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyBest for a stage of a long walk. The Via Francigena passes through.homes €2,950 to €4,400 a m² in the center · 22,743 peopleThe marble-processing town under the Apuan Alps, worked by Michelangelo, Henry Moore, Joan Miró and Fernando Botero. - 9.
Camaiore44 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyBest for a swim. The comune's beach holds a Blue Flag.homes €1,500 to €2,200 a m² in the center · 31,832 peopleThe 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. - 10.
Seravezza44 min from PisaLucca · TuscanyBest for a World Heritage site. UNESCO lists a site in the comune.homes €1,400 to €1,950 a m² in the center · 12,381 peopleThe Versilia town where Michelangelo opened the Pope's marble quarries and Cosimo I built his summer palace.
TEN OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN TUSCANY
We write letters from the Italian towns we visit: the town, what is worth eating there, and when to turn up. It is free, and you can leave whenever you like.
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