Oratorio di San Bernardino
L'oratorio di San Bernardino stands as a compact, brick-built church in Pisa, its central plan crowned by a small semicircular apse and a slender bell tower that rises above the tiled roof. Constructed in the second half of the 15th century at the intersection of the Emilia road and the road to Florence, it was raised at the behest of the local population to ward off deadly plague outbreaks, and it appears to have been completed by 1480. Over the centuries, the building underwent several restorations, and in the 19th century it was repurposed as the sacristy for a larger church built nearby; after a period of neglect, early in the 20th century it again received conservation work. …
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