In 232 days Patron saint festival
16–17 June 2027
Main day: Thursday 17 June
Pisa's patron falls on 17 June, but the night before the city turns off the lights: the Luminara outlines the buildings along the Arno with oil lamps, the high point of the Giugno Pisano.
Saint Ranieri is the patron of Pisa and his day falls on 17 June. The celebration begins the evening before, on the 16th, with the Luminara: the word is Pisan dialect for illumination, and it names the night when the palaces along the Arno are drawn in small flames.
The Luminara is the eve of the patron's day and the best-known appointment of the Giugno Pisano, the month in which the city gathers its traditions.
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Four monuments on a lawn, and a bell tower leaning since it was three storeys high.
Painted in 1989 by Keith Haring, this 180-square-meter mural in Pisa is a permanent public tribute to global harmony.
The devil's claw marks, a Galileo lamp that isn't the one, and a front built over a front.
The Gothic cloister of the Miracoli square: Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death, Roman sarcophagi and Golgotha soil.
Piazza dei Miracoli e Torre Pendente · duomo di Pisa · Camposanto monumentale and 39 more
Bistecca alla Fiorentina
24 places to stay · top rated: Palazzo Dipinto 9.3 · Hotel Alla Corte degli Angeli 9.2
Next up: Saint Ranieri and the Luminara, Wednesday 16 June
Nearest airport: Pisa Galilei, 4 km away
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