{"id":3647,"date":"2022-07-01T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/?post_type=fermata&#038;p=3647"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:34:17","slug":"tower-of-cantone-or-tower-of-verga-doro","status":"publish","type":"fermata","link":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/fermata\/tower-of-cantone-or-tower-of-verga-doro\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower of Cantone (or Tower of Verga d&#8217;Oro)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<strong>tower\u00a0<\/strong>of<strong>\u00a0Galileo,\u00a0<\/strong>or Torre del Cantone, also known in Pisa as the Verga d\u2019Oro (Golden rod), is a construction of the 12th century probably built to defend the Domus dei Dodi, one of the tower houses forming part of the original nucleus of the building. The\u00a0<strong>tower\u00a0<\/strong>is located between via Santa Maria and via San Nicola and is connected by an arch to the Palazzo delle Vedove, and by another to the church of San Nicola. In 1609, the great scientist\u00a0<strong>Galileo Galilei\u00a0<\/strong>invited the Grand Duke<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Cosimo II de\u2018 Medici<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to observe together the stars and the discoveries made by him thanks to his greatest invention: the\u00a0<strong>telescope.\u00a0<\/strong>These findings were extensively discussed in the astronomy treatise\u00a0<em>Sidereus Nuncius<\/em>, from 1610, among which we recall the surface\u00a0<em>rough and uneven\u00a0<\/em>of the moon, the star composition of the Milky Way, the four satellites of Jupiter, called Medicean in honour of Cosimo II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"640\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 640;\" width=\"640\" controls preload=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/stazione-4-torre-cantone-640.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8-PALAZZO-REALE-ITA-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-youtube mb-0\"><iframe data-hotspots=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" seamless=\"seamless\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pisa360.eu\/Galleria\/torre_del_cantone.html\"><\/div><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"text-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pisa360.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/overlay.png\" width=\"100\" ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group redazionale p-4\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Approfondimento<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finestresullarte.info\/opere-e-artisti\/l-immagine-del-potere-il-ritratto-di-eleonora-di-toledo-a-pisa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">L&#8217;immagine del potere. Il ritratto di Eleonora di Toledo a Pisa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3819,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"linea":[17],"class_list":["post-3647","fermata","type-fermata","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","linea-galileo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fermata\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fermata"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fermata"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"linea","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/percorsi-turistici.comune.pisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/linea?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}