History of Pisa, the rise of the Maritime Republic

Along with military force meanwhile, was being constantly consolidated mercantile vocation, which would bring Pisa to establish itself as one of the great powers of the Mediterranean: constituted a free commune, Mille said after his dominion over Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearics; in the wake of the Crusades he was able to extend its commercial influence to Syria.

The golden age is the twelfth century to the first half of the thirteenth: the time frame in which Pisa is delivered to history as glorious maritime republic, is enriched with beautiful monuments and saw the birth of the Studium university, one of the oldest and most prestigious d 'Europe.

Source: Ulysses by Alitalia

History of Pisa, the rise of the Maritime Republic