O hope, never fall down!!!!!!!!!
by Peruviangirlontour
I reallu loved the churches,the architecture is amazing, wonderful Well, When I saw the tower ,I really felt lucky, such an amazing building, enormous and famous that everybody wanna see, my best memory is just.been there
see the LEANING TOWER OF...
by Krystynn
see the LEANING TOWER OF PISA!!! Oh man, this Tower really leans.... And it was leaning even before its completion.
Anyhow, the over-200 tilted steps (can't remember the exact number though. Soorry!) to the top is closed whilst engineers work 'round the clock' to keep the Bell Tower from toppling over. So, the area around the tower is now a construction zone (or at least it was when I was there).
I think the engineers are working to stop the tower from leaning even further (not so much as to straighten it out).
Pisa's Tower: How it leans!
by BarbieGirl
Here it is the famous Leaning Tower, the campanile of the cathedral. This rises in eight stages to 180 ft and with an inclne from the vertical of about 16 ft. Begun in 1173, the belfry was only 35 ft high when a subsidence of the soil threw it out of the oerpendicular. During the 13th century building continued with an attempt to rectify the inclination. The tower as it now stands was completed about 1350. (In the recent past has been closed to the public for works for warious years, as there was the serious risk that the tower 'd have fallen down. Close by is the cathedral built in 1063-1092, one of the finest monuments of Italian Romanesque, with horizontal banding of red and white marble and elliptical dome. Facing the west front of the cathedral is the Baptistry by Dioti Salvi, begun in 1152, and with Gothic dome added in the 14th century; it contains a pulpit that was the masterpiece of Nicola Pisano. Camposanto, a cloistered burial ground dating from the 13th century and completed in the 15th, was largely ruined in the Second World War. These buildings, in which repeated arcading creates a notable and unifying feature, form one of the mosta attractive and impressive groups in Europe.
Lucifer is expelled from paradise
by globetrott
Lucifer is expelled from paradise - click on the pic for better solution. The details are really great in reality, and when you are lucky, the sun will shine on it and make your pics perfect.
Have a look of the faces of the different persons.
This door is at the backside of the Duomo, facing the Battistero.
Get out and visit the quarries...
by margaretvn
Get out and visit the quarries at Carrara, that is where Michelangelo got his marble for his wonderful sculptures. It is a steep climb up into the hills bu you can really see how white the marble is and how big the industry still is.