tradition

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In 1945, Cantieri di Pisa began building civilian and military craft in Limite sull'Arno, a small town on the river Arno 30 kilometres downstream from Florence. Since the 17th century, Limite has been the cradle of boat building thanks to the opening of the Navicelli Canal by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1575. Because of the skill of its shipwrights the town was named the ‘University of Wood’. In 1956 the yard moved to Pisa dockyard, also on the Navicelli Canal, where it is located today. In those years the yard also built large sailing boats such as the Tyrsa, a 20 metre ketch, and the Kerilos, a winner of the Giraglia Cup. The yard gained its real fame, however, with the range of classically elegant wooden motor yachts named after celestial bodies that were developed in the 1960s and 1970s – Pegasus, Saturno, Jupiter, Polaris and Kitalpha. These famous yachts, together with the Akhir range that later became the symbol of the yard’s production, spread the name of Cantieri di Pisa around the world being synonymous with absolute style and quality.