Pisa Campo Santo - Frescoes

The cemetery, in the form of a cloister, is surrounded by arcades and has tall round-arched windows filled with beautiful tracery overlooking the central courtyard. The world-famous frescoes on the walls (notably by Benozzo Gozzoli) were mostly destroyed by melted lead from the roof during a fire caused by Allied bombing on July 27th 1944, but some have been restored and are displayed in the cloister and in two adjoining rooms. Some of the Etruscan, Roman and medieval sculpture disposed round the cloister is of high artistic value. The pavement is composed of gravestones.