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How fabulous is the Leaning Tower of Pisa!
It is one of those must-see things to see when in Italy.
When built, the architect only managed to complete three tiers before it started to lean.
Re-opened to visitors in the last couple of years, it is exhilerating to climb to the top and look over Pisa.
It is bizarre climbing up the stairs with the walls and floor sloping in with the lean, which is quite pronounced - best to keep a hand on the wall as you climb so you don't fall over!
You can pre-book your tickets on the website, and then just pick them up an hour before your climb. This way you son't miss out, as it can get pretty busy. Leave a Comment Address: Piazza dei Miracoli, PisaPhone: +39 050560547Directions: follow the tourists!!Website: www.opapisa.it
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This is a fact, that many of the bell towers in Italy are also leaning for one reason or another. (According to the The Guinness Book of World Records the Tower of Suurhusen in Germany is leaner than the Leaning Tower of Pisa ???).
But none of them famous enough as this one, the 55m high, white marble leaning campanile with an inclination of 5° in southern direction.
In the past it was widely believed that the inclination of the campanile was part of the project ever since its beginning, but it is not so.
Incidentally, it started leaning before it was even finished. The reason was the shifting soil as grounding. The builders tried to compensate the leaning, but without any succes.
However, the lean is greater at the bottom than at the top. If you look at the tower from the appropriate direction you may notice it is really not perfectly straight on one angle.
A lot of work has gone into its maintenance in the last 50 years to stop it from leaning further, for example injecting concrete into the ground underneath. I have not heard whether these efforts have been completely successful.
It is difficult to predict whether it will fall or not, however, Pisa without the tower would be Venice without the water!!!
One more fact has to be added: also Galilei has been reported to have dropped bullets with different mass off the tower and proved that the speed of the freefall is independent from the mass of the bullets.
I think a visit to Pisa won’t be complete for you without climbing the tower, which is not so easy, because there is some limit of climbers per day.
It is the best to check in advance to make sure it is open when you go and reserve your place in advance (highly recommended!!!!).
Opening hours in high season 8:30am - 8:30pm, last entry 8pm.
For detailed informations check the Website.
Admission costs €15 (€17 if you book online in advance).
Online booking: http://boxoffice.opapisa.it/Torre/index.jsp
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 climbing the tower by filipdebont
In order to climb the tower, you need to buy a ticket (15 euro). If you have intentions of climbing this tower, do not hesitate, buy your ticket first, before you visit the other buildings at the Campo dei Miracoli, as the tower can only entered in groups of 20 persons.
I did buy my ticket around 12.00 and my tower-access time was 15.30. Leave a Comment Address: Campo dei Miracoli
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 the famous tower by filipdebont
Already in 1178, while constructing the third floor, the tower started to lean, because of the bad underground (7 meters mud, sand and clay).
This tower was also used by Galileo to prove his theory of the falling objects. Leave a Comment Address: Campo dei Miracoli
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 The leaning stairs by filipdebont
But climbing the Torre Pendente in Pisa was a very special experience.
Of course because of the special position of this Tower. As you are climbing the Tower, the one moment the steps of this Tower are leaning towards the inside and a half revolution further they are leaning towards the outside. So you need to adapt your search for the right balance every half revolution you make on the spiral stairs. Leave a Comment Address: Campo dei Miracoli
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 view from the tower by filipdebont
But it is worth to do this effort, as the view is great.
You have a great view over the Campo dei Miracoli (Field of Miracles), with in front the Cathedral (Duomo) and the back the Battistero (Baptistery) and at the right the Campo Santo (the cemetery). Leave a Comment Address: Campo dei Miracoli
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 The bells by filipdebont
The clock chamber has a smaller diameter then the 7 other storeys.
Luckily for us the bells did not ring when we were visiting the tower.
More information on this famous tower at http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/ Leave a Comment
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 by globetrott
It was started to be built in 1174 by Bonanus, who just had finished the 3rd floor, when the tower started to lean...
Giovanni de Simone continued in 1275 with the construction...
...and finally in 1372 it was finished by Tommaso Pisano
Several wise people of all decades tried to find a technical solution in order stabilize the tower, that leans about 4 meters today.
Galileo Galilei - born 1564 in Pisa, was the most famous of them. He started to make experiments about gravity and had the strange idea,the world would be a ball....
The Vatican could not accept his theory, made a trial against him and set him into prison in 1633, where Galilei died in 1642.
More than 300 years later, in 1993, the pope appoligized for that error... Leave a Comment Directions: On Piazza dei Miracoli - you certainly will NOT miss it...
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The construction of this imposing mass was started in the year 1174 by Bonanno Pisano. When the tower had reached its third storey the works ceased because it had started sinking into the ground. The tower remained thus for 90 years. It was completed by Giovanni di Simone, Tommano Simone (son of Andreo Pisano), crowned the tower with the belfry at half of 14th century.
The top of the Leaning Tower can be reached by mounting the 294 steps which rise in the form of a spiral on the inner side of the tower walls.
This very famous work is of Romanesque style, and as already stated dates back to the year 1174. Cylindrical in shape it is supplied whit six open galleries. A cornice separates these galleries one from the other and each presents a series of small arches fitted on the capitals of the slender columns. In the base there is a series of big blind arcades with geometrical decorations. In the belfry there is the same design of arcades as that of the base, with the difference that here, there are, apart from the reduced proportions, the housings of the bells.
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 by neilward
I often wish I could draw,or even paint,it must be wonderful to just open up a box of paints,and just put down on canvas what you can see and feel. Leave a Comment
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