The Logge di Banchi is a loggia of Pisa that is located at the entrance of the Ponte di Mezzo in the south half of the city centre.
The loggia, supported by twelve pillars, was built between 1603 and 1605 to a design by the architect Bernardo Buontalenti. At the time it housed the wool and silk market (the “stalls” of the name refer to the market stalls), and even today it is sometimes used for markets of various kinds. They are square-based, with twelve pillars that hold a plan (built in the early eighteenth century), initially much lower and enriched by a scrolled pediment. The scrolls were removed in 1814, when the entire upper floor, connected directly to Palazzo Gambacorti via a flyover, was raised and embellished with a triangular pediment.
Here, since 1865, the State Archive of Pisa was established. In the basement of the Logge there are public baths of the early twentieth century, recently reopened.
Its profile, next to the Clock Tower, is one of the most well-known elements of the views of the Pisan riversides.