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The hotel is located in the city centre of Pisa and was established in 2004. It is close to the Leaning Tower. The property is one of Pisa's most exclusive hotels. Starting with the facility's structure of a fourteenth century tower a team of architects, under the attentive eyes of the Office for Architectural Heritage, carried out careful and respectful renovation works. A prestigious and warm residence with 21 different rooms with minibar, hairdryer, safe, trouser press and air conditioning. The various rooms, that still maintain a few elements of the original house, refer to the nineteenth century transformation of the building and offer elegant and comfortable accommodations. Guests may enjoy the attic with its warm fireplace and library on cold winter evenings. On the back of the facility, there is a romantic garden for candlelit dinners set in a very beautiful surrounding.Once upon a time the first person to dwell within my walls and my fortified towers was a fearless captain warrior (condottiero). Over the centuries, I have witnessed historic events that have changed the rhythm of life in my city and the entire world. I recall the famous sentence from Dante’s XXXIII canto of the Inferno recounting the ill fated life of Count Ugolino who lived in another fortified tower not far from here: “La bocca sollevò dal fiero pasto...” (Lifting his mouth from his horrendous meal...) I remember the architect Vasari who, in the 16th century, redesigned the ancient Piazza delle Sette Strade. He combined urban planning with art as only he knew how, he joined the fortified Torre del Conte to the adjoining house and created an arch which covers the road beneath. I have been named after the clock which has marked the passing of time ever since Vasari set it over the arch.Vasari also decorated the old civic building with monochrome engravings and called it: Il Palazzo della Carovana, which since the nineteenth century has been the see of the Scuola Normale Superiore which is recognised all over the world as one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education. Thus was born Piazza dei Cavalieri a square of rare charm which, even today, rivals in beauty the nearby and best known Piazza dei Miracoli. Thousands of students have come and gone through our University, some of them have helped to shape the history, progress and the civilisation of mankind. Amongst the many, I recall with particular affection a tender, frail boy who I used to see from a window opposite to mine; he was always writing wrapped in shawl.One day, as he passed by, I glanced amongst his many papers, a sheet which had been corrected in his minute handwriting. They were the verses destined for immortality: “Silvia rimembri ancora quel tempo della tua vita mortale...” (Silvia do you still remember the time when you were alive...). From a plaque which is now placed under that window I know that he was the famous poet Giacomo Leopardi.I am ready to give hospitality in my beautiful rooms to many visitors and I shall be able, at long last, to tell this and many other stories to the many new friends who will come and enjoy my house.