Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena
The Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena stands as a Baroque jewel in Pisa, its elegant façade signaling the reinvention of an earlier oratory that dated back to 1156. In 1717, the architect Andrea Vaccà rebuilt the church in the refined Baroque idiom that remains visible today, including a richly styled portal and a single-aula interior with a vaulted ceiling. The interior houses monumental altars crafted in stucco and marble by Vaccà, with a XVIIth‑century set of paintings on the altars and a notable 1640 wooden crucifix at the high altar. The church's history reflects a continuity of Catholic devotion through the centuries, even enduring the damage of the Second World War, from which it recovered its striking aesthetic. …
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