After visiting Florence on October 18, 2019 we met back at the coach and headed to Pisa, with the opportunity to climb the 294 steps up to the top of the world famous “Leaning Tower.” In Miracle (Piazza del Duomo) Square we viewed the Pisa Cathedral and Pisa Baptistery.
Italy counts at least 10 leaning towers, of which two more are located in Pisa: the Campanile of San Nicola and the Campanile of San Michele degli Scalzi. Not surprisingly, Venice, with its unstable soil, also counts three leaning towers.
The “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was stabalized in the 1990s by a method known as soil extraction. Engineers dug a series of tunnels on the north side of the tower and remove small amounts of earth. (The tower leans to the south.) With steel cables that pulled it back into its original position.
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