Pisa - San Piero a Grado

Legend has it that the Apostle Peter landed at this place, then on the coast, on his way to Rome. The church which he founded here, the Ecclesia ad Gradus (Church by the Steps), became from an early period an important staging-point for pilgrims making their way to Rome from the north. The present aisled Romanesque basilica, under which excavation has revealed remains of an earlier church, probably dates from the 11th century.