Antique & Vintage Postcards

A sun-drenched rooftop terrace at the Grand Hotel Duomo in Pisa frames one of the world's most recognizable skylines — the Baptistery, Cathedral, and tilting Campanile (Leaning Tower) rising beyond colorful deck chairs and potted lemon trees in this vivid chrome-era postcard from August 1966. Someone — let's call them a traveler named perhaps an American tourist — kept this card as a personal memento, writing on the back in neat pencil: "stayed here nit of aug 9, '66", a small human timestamp connecting the card to a specific summer night at what was then a premier Pisa hotel. The image quality is sharp and color-saturated in the manner of Italian chrome postcards of the 1960s, produced by SACA of Genova.