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Chiesa di Santa Maria della Spina

Pisa


Don't miss this waterside, triple-spired church, an exquisite Pisan-Gothic gem encrusted with tabernacles and statues. It was built between 1230 and 1233 to house a reliquary of a spina (thorn) from Christ's crown.


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