How many leaning towers does italy have? I thought the one in Pisa was The leaning tower, now to find it has siblings
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Turns out it's difficult to make a tower stand up straight for 900 years
Maybe they should see a doctor
That's exactly what they're doing!
I can barely get mine to stand straight for 20 minutes these days
So all the people holding it back on Instagram didn't help after all
that's another leaning tower.
the fact that a country brags more than one leaning tower is a bit concerning.
the fact that a country brags more than one leaning tower is a bit concerning.
On the contrary. It speaks for the quality of its buildings in general. Engineering isn't easy, especially if you're doing it with medieval math. Hence things will go wrong. But the leaning buildings in Italy tell me that Italian builders accounted for that and build their structures to last even when things go wrong. Hence it does indeed make me feel safer in any old building that isn't leaning.
Survivor bias, we don't know about all the towers that did in fact lean to far and fell over the centuries.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The square surrounding Bologna’s medieval “leaning tower” is to be closed off for “a few years” amid concerns that the 12th-century structure is tilting a little too precariously.
The Italian city’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, said the closure of Piazza di Porta Ravegnana was necessary in order to “save” the Garisenda tower.
“I am afraid to think about losing something that is part of the city’s soul,” Carlo Lucarelli, an author and screenwriter, told Corriere della Sera.
Giorgio Diritti, an actor and film director, said: “I’m worried from many perspectives, especially the fact that this news has come as a surprise.
The Garisenda and Asinelli towers are named after the rival families who built them, believed to be as a way to compete over their power and wealth, and are located at what was the entrance to the city.
The tower was cited several times in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and Le Rime, and Dickens wrote about it in his Pictures from Italy.
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They should dismantle it and rebuild it after fixing the base. Costly and long time to do but it is a cultural relic
Not sure how many tourists would want to see the rebuild, straight tower of bologna.
It’s all bologna