Many tourists and enthusiasts travel to Italy for see a Leaning Tower, it may not be very high today, but this historical tower has long been one of the most beautiful and tallest towers in Europe, it was built by Italian artists and architects in the 15th century, the tower is 55 meters high with 300 steps. At the time of installing the bells of small and large churches of this tower has become very heavy, which, of course, due to the special deviation of the Tower of Pisa, they never sound, the doubts and style of its construction resembled the towers of the church, for this reason a little to the church It is similar to St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. We will definitely look into starting the construction of this tower, how to build and why this attractive tower is built. please smile and stay with us.
Construction of the Tower of Pisa
Around the 12th century CE in Italy, Aristocrats or rich people had a lot of competition in building architectural masterpieces, every year, each of them puts the most famous artists and architects in charge of creating architectural masterpieces.
in August 1173, the construction of the Pizza Tower was started at the time a famous architect named Deuthisalvi started building the tower, at first, three lower floors were built, the height of which reached 12 meters and at that time, its tilting gradually became visible, because of which the tower was stopped for more than 100 years.
In 1234, they started building the Leaning Tower of Pisa again, soon the fourth floor of it was built, But the tower still tended to tilt, a few years later other architects built the fifth and sixth floors, but still the base of it had a tendency to tilt! At the time, many people thought about how to make it How to make the Leaning Tower of Pisa flat, that’s why they even made the upper floors a little different, but it was still of no benefit, Finally, in 1930, an architect named Giovanni Pisano finished the seventh floor, He built the balcony of the tower and installed its bell tower.
With the installation of seven bells, the weight of the tower reached 29 tons, this weight caused it to tilt more than 2 meters from the 13th century to today, Experts believe that it tilts a little more than half a centimeter every year and they even chose the time of the fall of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
but don’t be careful about this, the explosion of hundreds of bombs in World War II in the city or even the 800-year-old large and small earthquakes in the area have not yet been able to destroy the tower.
It is interesting to know that Italy has done and will pay for straightening the tower again, for example, near 2000, a group of experts from Poland with ideas and solutions to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa steady Or at least started their project to prevent it from curving further that by excavating the Tower of Pisa and installing steel foundations at a very high cost They reduced its deviation, but in fact, this action is of no use, Tower of Pisa, which is crookedly popular and has a place in people’s hearts.
Final Word
This tower was once built with the intention of being flat, which due to the soil characteristics of the area or its material has caused it to tilt over time, this building, which weighs about 30 tons,
It is beautiful as it is in the tower of Pisa from the upper floors You can see the beautiful view of the city from the seventh floor.
