Category Archives: place to see

Zoological Museum in Capannoli

The Zoological museum in Capannoli is located in the ground floor of Villa Baciocchi. The museum is composed of five rooms, it exposes taxidermied animals: invertebrates, birds, reptiles and fishes from all over the world.

The museum exposes over 1400 exemplaries of fauna.

Some rooms proposes environmental reconstructions with dioramas, it exposes tigers, bears and lions.

Free entry

Museo Zoologico
Address: Villa Baciocchi, Piazza Castello, 1-4 Capannoli
Tel: 0587607035
Email: valderamusei@unione.valdera.pi.it

Opening time: 9.30-12.30/16.00-19.00. all days except Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.

Museo Archeologico della Valdera in Capannoli

The museum is located in Villa Baciocchi in Capannoli and it is composed of five rooms which propose a guided archaeological tour about Valdera’s history and revolution:
1- Prehistory in Valdera;
2-Etruscan in Valdera: settlement;
3- Etruscan in Valdera: necropolis;
4- Roman Valdera;
5- Middle Age in Valdera.

The museum collects archaeological material from excavations in Valdera. The exposition is enriched from a series dioramas of some settlement types.

Free entry

Museo Archeologico della Valdera
Address: Villa Baciocchi, Piazza Castello, 1-4 Capannoli
Tel: 0587607035
Email: valderamusei@unione.valdera.pi.it

Opening time: 9.30-12.30/16.00-19.00. All the days except Tuesdays and Wednesdays afternoon.

Archeological Exhibit: Etruscan in Parlascio

Etruscan findings in Valdera

Thanks to some etruscan findings in Parlascio area there have been a lot of archaeological excavations that interested people. In Parlascio’s valley there are traces of a complex undreground village which dates back to the seventh century BC

Free entry

Mostra Archeologica: Etruschi a Parlascio Mostra di cantiere
Address: Villa Borri, via G. Galilei, 34 – Casciana Terme
Tel: 0587646133
Email: garocchecasciana@libero.it

Opening time: Saturdays 17.00-19.00; Sundays 16.30-19.30

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Museum of the Work and rural civilization in San Gervasio

Museum of the Work and rural civilization in San Gervasio is located inside a 1600 restructured house. It houses hundreds of objects like tools, utensils, and agricolture machinery used by Tuscan farmersin the last two centuries.

There is also a big library and its documentation centre, available on application, collects papers from 1800.

Outside there is an ancient windmill and some thresher from the last century.

The museum offers an interesting guided tour with a lot of labooratories for children and students.

Free entry

Museo del Lavoro e della Civiltà Rurale in San Gervasio
Address: San Gervasio- Palaia (Pisa)
Tel: 0587212077
Email: chiara.menichetti@tin.it

VISITS ON APPOINTMENT

Museum of Civiltà Contadina in Montefoscoli

In basements and tunnels there is the Museum of Peasants Culture. The agricultural activity into the properties of Vaccà-Bellinghieri’s family has given the possibility to collect large quantities of utensils which date back to the 16th century.

In the cellar, the mill or other places you can relive the emotions of a simple life, in touch with nature. This is a commemorational museum through material testimoniances of daily objects.

With booking there are guided tours for child and students.

Free entry

Museo della Civiltà Contadina di Montefoscoli
Address: Via Andrea Vaccà, 49 – Montefoscoli
Tel: 0587299581
Email: valderamusei@unione.valdera.pi.it

Opening times: Sundays 9.30-12.30/15.30-19.30

Centrum Sete Sòis Sete Luas di Pontedera

Festival Sete Sòis Sete Luas promotes the creation and the opening of cultural centres (Centrum) in the city more historical and beautiful.
In 2009 the first two Centrum have been inaugurated in Pontedera and in Ponte de Sor (Portugal). It also house exhibitions and many events such as conferences, tastings and shows

Free entry

Centrum Sete Sòis Sete Luas di Pontedera
Address: Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 82 – 56025
Tel: 0587090493
Email: info@7sois.org

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Centre of studies Andrea da Pontedera

The centre collects documents and material about Andrea da Pontedera’s art and school and more in general about 13th and 14th century: books, photos, videos, posts, essays etc.
It spreads Andrea’s material between scholars, students, newspapers and all over the world. Moreover, it promotes events about art history.

Guided tours for preserved material.

Free entry

Centro studi Andrea da Pontedera
Address: Via della Stazione Vecchia, 12 56025 – Pontedera
Tel: 0587212635
Email: cultura@comune.pontedera.pi.it

Opening time: Mondays: 16-18 e Wednesdays: 10-13

Centro per l’Arte Otello Cirri

The Centre for the Arts Otello Cirri of Pontedera’s municipality, inaugurated in January 2003, takes its name from a famous character for artistic and politic activities for the town, becoming Mayor from 1946 to 1951.

The centre’s cultural address is oriented on the theme of art history, valorizing with many exhibitions the Tuscan heritage.
A permanent exhibition takes place at the centre. Its is a photo collection by Brunero Tognoni, which donated to Pontedera’s municipality in 2010 almos 100 objects from 1800 until now.

Free entry

Centro per l’Arte Otello Cirri
Address: Via della Stazione Vecchia, 6
Tel: 058757282
Email: silvia.guidi@comune.pontedera.pi.it

Opening time: dal lunedì al sabato: 9 – 13 e 16 – 19.
Closed on August

Casa museo Vaccà-Berlinghieri

At PalazzoVaccà it is possible to visit the house-museum of Vaccà-Berlinghieri’s family, an extraordinary example of 1800-farming families’.

In the beautiful rooms there are objects and furnitures from that period, you can breath the familiar atmosphere of popular persons who helped to make the local history through material testimonies who tell us Bellinghieri’s participation to many events, such as the French Revolution.

Free entry

Casa museo Vaccà-Berlinghieri
Address: via Andrea Vaccà, 49 Montefoscoli
Tel: 0587299581
Email: valderamusei@unione.valdera.pi.it
Opening time: Domenica 9.30-12.30/15.30-19.30

Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Peccioli

The Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Peccioli houses Museo delle Icone Russe “F. Bigazzi” that, inaugurated in 2000, has become a place of preservation from over the 200 artworks exposed: some collections are Bigazzi’s and Belvedere’s,.

The museum is enriched from the collection of Incisions and Lithographies, a 2006 donation from Vito Merlini: 279 papers between incisions, lithographies, woodcuttings and serigrafie that he has collected.

Palazzo Pretorio simbolize the politic power and during the centuries, this has become the main exposure in Peccioli through a comparison.
Belvedere’s collectio, unique in its genre, presents wooden icons from 18th-20th century derived from the orthodox world. They show the date, the sign or a dedication.

Free entry

Opening time:

Wednesday 15.00 – 19.00
Saturday, Sunday and feast days 10.00 – 13.00, 15.00 – 19.00

Contacts:

Museo di Palazzo Pretorio
Address: Piazza del Popolo, 5 56037 Peccioli (PI)
Tel. 0587672158
Email: info@fondarte.peccioli.net