![]() ![]() We ate it up, including the Neapolitan pizza and caprese salad. It was the perfectly spaced out ones who would climb and balance on the cement posts that cracked us up the most. When builders eventually finished the third floor, the tower tipped 0.2 degrees northwest. Some experts now believe that without this pause, which allowed the soil to settle, the tower would have almost certainly toppled over. Some had elaborate, group schemes, some were just couples taking turns holding it up, some tried for awkwardly long periods of time trying to get juuuust the right selfie. Shortly after, the Republic of Pisa was busy battling the likes of Genoa, Lucca and Florence, so construction ceased. The funniest part was watching the posers (heh) pull out their best poses. It was on this trip to Tuscany to watch a fourteen year old's orchestra tour that we decided to stay the night in town and spend some quality marveling time. ![]() It began leaning shortly after construction began in 1173. Before work started, it was at 5.5 degrees. ![]() Computer models had predicted that the maximum incline the structure could tolerate before toppling over in an explosion of white marble, was an angle 5.44 degrees. But the famous structure has been in danger of collapsing almost since its first brick was laid. In the early 90s, a team of expert engineers were tasked with taking the Leaning Tower of Pisa back from its tipping point. We had seen her from above when we flew à la Pisa airport on our trip to Florence and hadn't really paid much attention to the details of the curves and columns in photos. By: William Harris Updated: The tower of Pisa has been leaning so long - nearly 840 years - that it's natural to assume it will defy gravity forever. She was much more of a looker than I had imagined, that Leaning Tower of Pisa. ![]()
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