They wanna Pisa the action. There’s another leaning tower in Italy — but this time, officials are worried about a dangerous collapse. The 12th-century catastrophe-in-waiting is the Torre ...
Amazingly, a fall 1997 earthquake centered on nearby ... The tower obliged, and by June 1999, the team had gained back an inch. The Leaning Tower now leans as it did roughly 30 years ago.
Authorities have begun constructing a 5m (16ft) high barrier around the 12th Century Garisenda Tower to contain debris in the event that it falls. The 47m (154ft) tower tilts at a four-degree ...
Built on the shifting sands of a former estuary, the Leaning Tower of Pisa probably began tilting not long after medieval laborers laid its first foundation stones. In the 800 years since ...
It's enough to give a monument an identity crisis. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its precarious tilt - but now experts have revealed it's going straight. The tower's ...
Have you ever wondered if the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a catastrophe waiting to happen? In this one-minute video, Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze explains how architects and engineers spent the ...