![]() ![]() These two architects had little knowledge of foundations in Pisa.” Imagine the finger pointing imagine the blame game. How could that happen, you ask? One possible answer comes from the Opera della primaziale Pisana-the nonprofit organization established to oversee the first works for the construction of the monuments in the Piazza del Duomo (including the Leaning Tower): “ Guglielmo, it is said, in the year 1174, together with the sculptor Bonanno, laid the foundations of the belfry of the cathedral in Pisa. The tilt increased in the decades before the structure was completed, and gradually increased until the structure was stabilized (and the tilt partially corrected) by efforts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.” The tower now leans over 12 feet from the vertical axis. Wikipedia explains, “he tower’s tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure’s weight. Thus, it earned the name we all now know (and love?), “ Torre pendent di Pisa”-the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower began immediately to tilt-by the time they started laying just the second floor of the tower, it was leaning. ![]() At over 183 feet, it was to be a grand statement-remember, this was 1173, not 2016.īut the story is not all roses. In 1173, builders broke ground in Pisa, Italy, on the Torre de Pisa (that is, the Tower of Pisa). ![]()
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