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27 czerwca 2016, Włochy ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
What, other than the Leaning Tower? Not much...
But the tower is breathtaking. To see it at last, after first learning about in maybe 50 yrs ago at school...wow. Truckloads of visitors, well, Czytaj więcej
Richard n Sheila Travels The Tower really does lean. About 4 deg right now after some stabilisation recently as the leaning was increasing past 5deg. See the Tower location relative to the church it was supposed to be the bell tower for.
Richard n Sheila Travels Happy us posing...just so you know we didn't just scan a postcard for the prev pic. The Tower took something like 300 years to build, and at least 3 major architects, 2 of whom had to give up. The first was of course building a correctly vertical Tower. Ahem! Don't know how long the church took, but it's a hugely larger building...
Richard n Sheila Travels Gives a closer perspective of how much it leans. And how big it is. Quite astonishing really. And hot, as evidenced by the umbrellas.