Archaeology: The Piazza dei Cavalieri Blacksmith Shop

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The Piazza dei Cavalieri Blacksmith Shop Oct 12th 2011, 08:12 This photo is the backside of a statue of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany and friend and patron of Leonardo di Vinci in the 16th century. Cosimo is standing and looking into the Piazza dei Cavalieri (Knight's Square) in Pisa, Italy, near the site of the long-gone church of San Sebastiano alle Fabbriche Maggiori. Photo by Eric Perrone Underneath this quiet plaza are the remains of some five centuries of iron-mongering beginning in the 7th century AD: the San Sebastian church was named "near the blacksmith shops" when it was built in the 11th century. Archaeological excavations by Studio Associato InArcheo and led by G. Gattiglia have uncovered detailed information about one of the workshops, built during the 12th century. Frankly, five hundred years of the noise and smell of iron-working right in the middle of Pisa sounds pretty unpleasant to me, and by the time de' Medici rebuilt the square in grand style in 1558, all visible traces of the blacksmith's shops were gone. But not entirely.... Read more about the Piazza dei Cavalieri Blacksmith Shop

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