An ornate medieval cathedral devoted to Santa Maria Assunta, the Pisa Cathedral was built by the architect Buschetto in the year 1063. Appreciate its magnificent fusion of architectural styles: the Byzantine, classical, Romanesque Islamic and the Lombard-Emilian. One can also marvel at the colourful marble decorations on its facade and feast one’s eyes upon the shining gilded ceiling embellished with the most incredible frescoes one can possibly imagine. The highlight would be to head for the wooden vault where according to legend, Galileo Galilei supposedly observed the chandelier, alternatively known as the Lamp of Galileo, which led him to come up with the world-famous scientific theory of the isochronism of the pendulum.