Sant'Andrea Forisportam
Sant'Andrea Forisportam is a 11th-century building in Pisa that today serves as a theatre. The site holds a Romanesque nave-and-aisles layout, with a central nave flanked by two smaller chapels, reflecting its early medieval hall church form. The name, Sant'Andrea Forisportam, signals its origin outside a gate of Pisa’s medieval walls, a detail that anchors its historic role in the city’s urban fabric. The church is documented as early as 1104 and functioned as a parish church until 1839, when it was deconsecrated and repurposed as a fish-market. In 1847 it became the chapter of the Union of the Sacred Heart for the Conversion of the Sinful, a transitional moment before its wartime damage and postwar restoration. …
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