Pisa - Santa Caterina

This church, to the northeast of the central area of the town, was built for the Dominicans between 1251 and 1300 on the site of an earlier building. The Pisan-style façade with its rose- window and dwarf gallery was added about 1330, the beautiful campanile (by Giovanni di Simone) still later. Damage caused by a fire in 1651 was rather clumsily made good. The church contains a marble "Annunciation" by Nino Pisano (c. 1330) with traces of its original coloring.