balestro

Updated: July 17, 2026

Evening had come when I found myself again on the Lung' Arno, in a world neither Pagan nor Christian, in which I am a stranger. Leaving behind you Ponte di Mezzo and the Lung' Arno, quasi a modo d'un archo di balestro, you come into the Borgo, under the low arches of the old houses that make a covered way. This is perhaps the oldest part of Pisa.

Edward Hutton - Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson: And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition