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If you are lucky enough to have the chance to climb to the top of the leaning tower, be careful!
When you are climbing up the stairs you can really notice the lean, and you could easily fall over - especially on the way back down....and the stairs are a little slippery too.
Just take it slow. Leave a Comment
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 the leaning tower by filipdebont
- The tower can only be visited in groups of 30 persons with some guides which give directions while climbing to the top.
- Each visit lasts about 35 minutes.
- It is important to be punctual, as each visit time is limited.
- This climbing of the tower requires a substantial physical effort, which can be individually estimated, considering the spiral staircase with about 300 steps.
- No children under 8 allowed.
- Children between 8 and 12 must be held by the hand.
- Children under age, between 12 and 18, shall be allowed only if accompanied by adults in charge.
- You need to leave your handbags, day-backpacks in the cloakroom near the meeting point. (there are free lockers).
- Use of cameras, movie or video cameras is allowed. Leave a Comment
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 by globetrott
There you may get combination-tickets for 3 , 4 or 5 of the attractions.
AND the tickets for the leaning tower.
These tickets are sold out quickly, as every 30 minutes only a certain amount of people is allowed to the tower. A guide will take them up and down again.
If you arrive in the afternoon, it might be too late to get tickets at all.
Be IN TIME at the tower, 1 minute too late, and the door will be locked for you !! - and you also lost the 15 Euros of your ticket. Leave a Comment
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If you are lucky enough to climb the Leaning Tower make sure you are not standing too close to the giant bells when they toll.
You may want to cover your ears too - they are pretty loud when you are standing so close to them!!
Luckily there is an announcement before they ring, so you can prepare yourself!! Leave a Comment Phone: (+39) 050 560547Website: www.opapisa.it Other Contact: primaziale@sirius.pisa.it
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rush-hours by globetrott
If you come early in the morning, you see the whole place almost empty ( and even in great sunshine, when you are lucky)
Just a few hours later it looks like on the lower part of my picture....
...decide yourself, what you prefer !! Leave a Comment
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Watch your step, when climbing up the leaning tower !
These steps are several hundred of years old and millions of tourists stepped over them.
At some places they are quite worn out, uneven or slippery.
Take good shoes and forget about sandals etc.
I any case you will NOT be allowed to take backpacks and similar luggage with you ! Leave a Comment
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 by globetrott
Then you have to enter trough a rather narrow door, beeing just maybe 45 cm wide.
This might be one of the reasons, why you are NOT allowed with your back-packs or bigger luggage to climb up the tower. Leave a Comment
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Around the tower there is a real possiblity of having a pickpocket occurance. Strap down you r money becaue some areas are so crowded that you are shoulder to shoulder and could lose your money. Als, the Africans that sell junk, either from vendor booths, or just have some items on them are scary. They seem to have hate in their eyes and If you ignore them or say no, they can act mean. They do not give up and keep pushing and will follow you along while you walk unles syo uare stern to say GO AWAY!
I do not know why the city does not contro this more. It turns off every tourist coming to the area. Must be the liberal culture here?
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One word of caution to the faint hearted. The tower is very high and this is not England or America, where you would not be allowed in the tower never mind climb it. Once you have made it to the top there are small railings surrounding the top (some of them broken and repaired with sticky tape!!!!) and even less surrounding the upper bell level. If you trip and fall over on the steps, your off the tower and re-enacting Galilleo's famous gravity experiments. There is no safety net. You have to be up there to appreciate just how easy that would be.
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