San Pietro in Vinculis is a church in Pisa

Pisa

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, Tuscany

Tuscany

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, Italy

Italy

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It was built by the Augustinians in 1072-1118 over a pre-existing edifice. The rectory was added a few years later.

The structure follows the Pisane Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

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 style established by Buscheto

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. It has a nave and two aisles with apses. The façade is articulated by pilaster strips, blind arches, oculi (small circular windows), lozenges and mullioned windows.

In the interior the intarsia

Intarsia

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 pavement lies over a crypt

Crypt

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with groin vaults and Roman capitals, perhaps the relic of an ancient market loggia later turned into a Christian temple. It houses a Roman sarcophagus, remains of frescoes and a Crucifix on panel from the 13th century. In the rectory are frescoes from the 13th and 15th centuries and 18th century stuccoes.

The bell tower was in origin a civil tower (late 11th-early 12th century).