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The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: torre pendente di Pisa [ˈtorre penˈdɛnte di ˈpiːza,-ˈpiːsa] [1]), or simply the Tower of Pisa (torre di Pisa), is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation.
The tower was stabilised using underexcavation by James Trubshaw in 1832; this is the earliest known application of the technique later used on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. [10] There are four Commonwealth service war graves of World War I in the original churchyard [11] and, in the neighbouring churchyard extension, another three from the same ...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, an iconic leaning tower. This is a list of leaning towers.A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction, or subsequent external influence such as unstable ground), does not stand perpendicular to the ground.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is notable for its pronounced slant, but also because, despite that precarious state, it’s managed to stay standing through four or more significant earthquakes. An ...
The Tower of Pisa was once feared on the brink of collapse as the lean that made it such a popular landmark threatened its very existence. As it celebrates its 850th birthday, experts now say its ...
The Duomo and the Leaning Tower in the Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa Between the Byzantine and the Gothic period was the Romanesque movement, which went from approximately 800 AD to 1100 AD. This was one of the most fruitful and creative periods in Italian architecture, when several masterpieces such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Piazza dei ...
It was already leaning by the early 14th century when Dante wrote “Inferno,” in which he described the dizzy rush of looking up at the Garisenda’s leaning side. A plaque on the tower today ...
The Pisa Centrale railway station was considered by the Allies to be of strategic importance for railway communications in central Italy, as it was the intersection point between the Turin-Genoa-Rome-Naples railway line and the Livorno-Florence railway line; this led to several Allied air raids aimed at its destruction.