Pistoia (Tuscany). Piazza della Sala. Pozzo del Leoncino. The name derives from the role it played in the Longobard era, when there was the curtis domini regis, or the Gastaldo palace. In later age it became the daily food market. On all sides of the square and in the neighboring streets there developed a continuous theory of small shops with wooden doors, stone pallets and highly protruding canopies supported by wooden corbels. The organization of the food market was the task of the Opera di San Jacopo. In 1451 the Opera established that the well was configured outside in order to facilitate the lifting of water: consequently the parapet was replaced by a circular marble that was flanked by two Ionic columns surmounted by a lintel for support of a pulley. The architrave, divided into three bands of white and green marble, was decorated with coats of arms, inscriptions and frames. In 1529 a sandstone lion holding the left paw over the chessboard emblem of the city was placed above the architrave of the well, to remind, through the Florentine Marzocco, the definitive dominion of Florence over Pistoia. From that moment the well took the name of Pozzo del Leoncino. #piazzadellasala #pozzodelleoncino #pistoia #toscana #igerspistoia #longobardi #gastaldo #curtisdomini #sanjacopo #stories #travel #traveling #vacation #visiting #instatravel #instagood #instagood #trip #holiday #travelling #tourism #tourist #instatraveling #mytravelgram #travelgram #travelingram #igtravel #massimopistis #subVERSivi #thebook https://www.instagram.com/p/BouSqLSiIp0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ov6qgpypwdm8