Piazza delle Baleari - Marina Di Pisa

The Piazza delle Baleari was reconstructed in the early 2020s.

The city council wanted to place a reminder of the old route from the city to the coastline in Marina di Pisa.

It became the locomotive "Dante Alighieri", which served for many years on the tracks of first the line Pisa-Pontedera and then the line Pisa-Boccadarno, used by the Pisan steam trams.

After he was found in 2019, they wanted to return him to Pisa, the very year that is dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet after whom the locomotive is named: Dante Alighieri. After a careful restoration, the locomotive has been carefully restored with specific treatments to protect it from sea influences and placed in Piazza delle Baleari, as the culmination of the redevelopment of the square, and to recall the ancient route of the Trammino leading to the Litoral led.

The locomotive was built in 1883 by the German firm Henshel and Sohn of Cassel and remained in operation in Pisa until the 1920s. He was then assigned to the Monterufoli mining railway, eventually joining the Bologna-Cento tram line. After the war it worked in the sugar refinery of Rieti and then in Veneto, in a sugar refinery of the same owner. In the mid-1980s, when service ended, the building was destined for demolition, but it passed into the hands of Davide Ferrato, the owner of a company specializing in the trade of steel products, who kept it. Since then it has been featured in some historical exhibitions. The machine weighs approximately 14 tons empty, is 6.7 meters long and 2.65 meters wide. With the chimney installed, it reaches a height of more than 3 meters above the ground

Willem Vandenameele