The Ripa

This is the name given to the steep road linking the Santa Croce district with the upper part of the town. Entering the town via the Porta Munaldi gate and continuing along the entire length of the “Ripa” you arrived at the Duke’s Palace and the Cathedral. Its route was altered by the creation of the Ranghiasci Park whose southern boundary it now marks out. A number of buildings along its route were demolished in order to make space for the Park including the Church of St. Bartholomew on the Ripa. Along the present-day route is to be found the house of Pietro Ubaldi, one of the major twentieth-century philosophers. A plaque on its façade commemorates the 20 or so years he spent here teaching English at the Grammar School until 1952.