WhAt interesting fact do you know about the LEANING TOWER OF PISA?

Question

I'm doing a report on the tower of pisa.

My focus is on the soils under the tower, but i'll take any facts you wanna cough up. Sources are much appriciated.

Wikipedia doesn't cut it.

Answer 1

it will never fall

Answer 2

A good site to see:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/interv...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands in the Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracle Square) in the town of Pisa, Italy.

There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Answer 3

it is leaning and it is a tower.

no, i am kidding i did some reseach for you and here is what i got from yahoo. Hope you like it.

http://www.touritalynow.com/italy_articl...

Answer 4

Galileo liked to throw things off it.

Answer 5

James Burland was the engineer who was in charge of stabalizing the structure.

Answer 6

Ten things you never knew about the Leaning Tower of Pisa ..

1. It used to lean the other way.

2. It is now banana - shaped.

3. The top is straighter than the base.

4. I've had enough of this.

It was clear shortly after building started (in 1173) that the fine river soils of the Pisan Plain were collapsing under the tower's weight.

U can check out the site urself it is :-

Answer 7

Torre Pendente - Leaning Tower - the symbol of Pisa and of Italy itself. All the buildings of the Field of Miracles lean because of their shallow foundations and sandy silt subsoil, but none tilts so famously as Leaning Tower.

Begun in 1173, the tower began to tip sideways before the third storey was completed. Anyway, construction continued until its completion in 1350.

The tower takes the shape of a gigantic column, with open rows of columns one on top of the other, fitting in perfectly with the style of the rest of the square.

A climb to the top of the stairs provides a truly unique view of the square below.

Answer 8

Journeying on to Florence  through  the Tuscan  countryside: Lucca, Pisa, Siena, Arezzo and other delightful towns dot the road to Pisa where who are guested of the Agostini family Villa di Corliano. The family - and 2 resident ghosts - still welcome guest at the Villa, much as it they were at the height of its fame in the 1770’s. The stay at Bagni di Pisa (health giving waters are still offered to an international clientele) and visit Pisa during one of the city’s festivals, staying at the Agostini Palace to enjoy the best view of the festivities http://www.provincia.pisa.it/pisalive/it...

The Villa has hosted many illustrious guests such as Gustavus III of Sweden, Christian II of Denmark, the Royal Family of Great Britain, Benedict Stuart Cardinal of York, General Murat, Luigi Buonaparte, Paolina Borghese, Carlo Alberto of Savoy, the poets Byron and Shelley, and various other personages from the history books. The area of the Pisa hills was already an attraction for enlightened travellers in the first half of the 1700s with the growth of the thermal spa of San Giuliano, which became a fashionable spot for the well-off classes. The mansions on the road along the hills, already renowned as places of gentle idleness and relaxation in the heart of the countryside and also for their small industrial facilities for the transformation of agricultural products, soon assumed the characteristics of true leisure resorts, just like those narrated by Carlo Goldoni and which we can continue to enjoy today.

The Relais dell’ Ussero at the Villa Agostini della Seta di Corliano http://www.corliano.it is on the road which runs along the foot of the hills from Pisa to Lucca, passing through the small town of San Giuliano Terme. The Villa is a historical fifteenth century mansion surrounded by a centuries old park. It is a property of great charm in which the owners offer, in 12 rooms and 2 suites, a relaxing stay immersed in the beauties of the local countryside.

Guests, if they like, can join in the day to day activities of the villa. They can have relaxing strolls in the park, potter around in the gardens, chat or have dinner with the owners in the farmhouse of the villa – today a high class restaurant http://www.ladycarlotta.it/

They can also organize all the necessary details for your meetings, convention, weddings at 1700’s small pivate church or at 1400’s sky garden or at the park of the Villa or at the oldest Italian cinema http://www.lumierecinema.it/ restructured with modern audio visual technologies on 2004 near the Vecchio Dado Resturant http://www.vecchiodado.com/ for a very good ice cream at the old “diacciaia” (now De Coltelli gelateria) http://www.decoltelli.it/