Next to the church of San Francesco, in a building of 1780, is the tomb of Dante, who died here, in exile, in 1321, with a fellow poet's Here I lie buried, Dante, exiled from my birthplace, son of Florence, that loveless mother.
Dante was in exile in the early 1320s.
The open ground on the edge of the Maidan is where Mahatma Gandhi held mass prayer-meetings.