Palazzo Gambacorti is a historic building in Pisa.
It is one of the most famous palaces on the Lungarno di Pisa. Built between 1370 and 1392, it is located on Lungarno Gambacorti, between the Toselli and Degli Uffizi streets, at the entrance to the south of the Ponte di Mezzo.
It was built on the commission of Pietro Gambacorti, perhaps on a project by Tommaso Pisano. The Gambacorti family was part of the rich Pisan mercantile nobility, with vast estates in Valdera.
The fourteenth-century façade is in Gothic style, with elegant mullioned windows. On the back there is also a seventeenth-century facade, with tall windows with semicircular tympanums and a beautiful portal with the Medici coat-of-arms.
It was during the fifteenth century that the palace changed its destination, becoming the seat, rather than private, of a public magistrature, the Consuls of the Sea, of the Customs and subsequently of the Prior citizens. In 1533 he returned private, passing to the Del Tignoso family, who enlarged it incorporating from inside the two buildings on both sides, which still today are part of the complex but from the outside appear as different buildings. In the eighteenth century the Lorraine took it back and placed the Magistrates there. In the nineteenth century it hosted the State Archives, the Barracks of the Fire Brigade and the Municipal Guard. Today it is the seat of the municipal administration.
Inside there are frescoes celebrating the maritime victories of Pisa.