Torre dei Gualandi
Torre della Muda, Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, engravings dated 1865.
The Torre dei Gualandi (also known as the Muda Tower,) is a former tower in Pisa, central Italy, now included in the Palazzo dell'Orologio.
It is located on the north part of the Piazza dei Cavalieri. The tower was in the right part of the present building, the one without the four-light window. Gualandi was the name of a Pisan family that owned the tower in the 13th century.
Palazzo dell'Orologio
Ugolino della Gherardesca, his sons and two grandsons were immured in the tower and starved to death in the 13th century. Dante, his contemporary, wrote about Gherardesca in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy.
See also
External links
- http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/luoghi/palazzodellorologio/
- http://www.comune.pisa.it/turismo/itinerari/1itinerario-gb.htm
- http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltparticles/ltp%20rapid%201948/ltp%20rapid%201948.htm
- http://www.pisaonline.it/ulisse/eng/manoscritti.htm
Coordinates: 43°43′10.67″N 10°23′58.28″E / 43.7196306°N 10.3995222°E
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