L'Ostellino

Pisa


For a gourmet panino (sandwich) wrapped in crunchy waxed paper, this minuscule deli and panineria delivers. Take your pick from dozens of different combos written by hand on the blackboard (lardo di colonnata with figs or cave-aged pecorino with honey and walnuts are sweet favourites), await construction, then hit the green lawns of Piazza dei Miracoli to picnic with the crowds.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Pisa attractions

1. Orto e Museo Botanico

0.12 MILES

For a Zen-like respite from the Piazza dei Miracoli crowd, explore this peaceful walled garden laced with centurion palm trees, flora typical to the…

2. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

0.17 MILES

Closed for extensive (seemingly everlasting) renovation, this museum is a repository for works of art once displayed in the duomo and battistero…

3. Piazza dei Miracoli

0.18 MILES

Pisans claim that Campo dei Miracoli is among the world's most beautiful urban spaces. Its walled lawns provide a photogenic setting for the candy-striped…

4. Leaning Tower

0.19 MILES

One of Italy's signature sights, the Torre Pendente truly lives up to its name, leaning a startling 3.9 degrees off the vertical. The 58m-high tower,…

5. Museo delle Sinopie

0.2 MILES

Home to some fascinating frescoes, this museum safeguards several sinopie (preliminary sketches), drawn by the artists in red earth pigment on the walls…

6. Duomo

0.23 MILES

Pisa's magnificent duomo was begun in 1064 and consecrated in 1118. Its striking tiered exterior, with green-and-cream marble cladding, gives onto a…

7. Battistero

0.28 MILES

Pisa's unusual round baptistry has one dome piled on top of another, each roofed half in lead, half in tiles, and topped by a gilt bronze John the Baptist…

8. Camposanto

0.3 MILES

Soil shipped from Calvary during the Crusades is said to lie within the white walls of this hauntingly beautiful resting place for many prominent Pisans,…