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Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa used to be piazza delle Sette Vie, the political centre of Pisa and likely the site of the Roman Forum: it was later transformed into the centre of the Order of the Knights of Santo Stefano by Cosimo I deâââ‰â¢ Medici, created to defend the Tuscan and Mediterranean coast from Turkish fleets and pirates. |
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