Chiesa di San Pietro in Vinculis
Chiesa di San Pietro in Vinculis stands out in Pisa for its Romanesque austerity and a lineage that reaches back to the late 11th century. Built between 1072 and 1118 by the Augustinians, it rose on the site of an earlier edifice and later gained a rectory a few years after its main structure. The church follows the Pisan Romanesque style established by Buscheto, presenting a nave and two aisles with apses, a façade animated by pilaster strips, blind arches, oculi, lozenges, and mullioned windows. Inside, an intarsia pavement rests above a crypt with groin vaults and Roman capitals, believed to be a survivor from an older market loggia repurposed as a Christian temple. …
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