On Friday we left for Pisa, Italy at about 9:30 a.m. from Florence and I was quite excited due to my prior exposure to the one thing that Pisa is famous for, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. When arriving in Pisa, I felt as though this city reminded me of some of the other smaller cities we visited throughout our trip such as Bologna and Siena. We visited a synagogue in Pisa that was different than other synagogue we saw this trip because it was basically in the form of a town house from what it looked like from the outside. Aside form this experience, I would like to highlight our visit to the Jewish cemetery where we did rubbings of the engraving on the gravestones of old Jews who lived in Pisa. This experience really enlightened me about the Jewish community in Pisa, a small town in Italy. I feel as though by taking these rubbings not only gave me something to take home to remember Pisa, but also gave me an appreciation of how old some of these gravestones were and the Jewish history of Italy and Pisa. On a lighter note, I would like to add that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was even more beautiful in person and the face that the structure leans so much is quite amazing. I am skeptical about how long this structure will hold up but hopefully I will be long gone so I will not hear the bad news.
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