The Torre dei Gualandi is a former tower in Pisa

Pisa

Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...

, central Italy

Italy

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, now included in the Palazzo dell'Orologio.

It is located on the north part of the Piazza dei Cavalieri

Knights' Square (Pisa)

The Knights’ Square is one of the most important landmarks in Pisa, Italy, and the second main square of the city. This square was the political centre in medieval Pisa. After the middle of 16th century the square become the headquarters of the Order of the Knights of St...

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The tower was in the right part of the present building, the one without the four-light window. Gualandi was the name of an ancient family of Pisa, that owned the tower in the 13th century.

Ugolino della Gherardesca

Ugolino della Gherardesca

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca , count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was frequently accused of treason and features prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy.-Biography:...

, his sons and two grandsons were immured in the tower and starved to death in the 13th century. Dante

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, his contemporary, wrote about Gherardesca in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

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External links

• http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/luoghi/palazzodellorologio/
• http://www.comune.pisa.it/turismo/itinerari/1itinerario-gb.htm
• http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltparticles/ltp%20rapid%201948/ltp%20rapid%201948.htm
• http://www.pisaonline.it/ulisse/eng/manoscritti.htm