BuildingLeaning Tower of Pisa (Torre pendente di Pisa)

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98%

perfection!

[proxam, 25.11.2007] One of the highlights of our trip to Tuscany last year was to be our visit to Pisa. To be accurate, the main attraction was not so much the city of Pisa itself, charming though it undoubtedly is, but the Field of Miracles. Well, to be punctiliously precise, it wasn't even the Field of Miracles that had our anticipatory juices flowing, but The Leani [more]

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excellent

Considered by the Lonely Planet Guide to be "one of the world's greatest cockups", the tower of Pisa "started to lean after three tiers had been completed". Built to be the bell tower of the cathedral, the "shifting soil" on which it was built "meant it inclined 1mm every year". After years of heavy restoration, the tower has been "saved". Howe [more]

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very good

The author starts with a brief run down of the history of the 'Leaning Tower', mentioning the fact that "most medieval towers still standing in Italy haven't been able to keep perpendicular over the centuries", although the Leaning Tower of Pisa is world famous due to this fact. Further to this, the author says that "the tower's problem, is you ca [more]