Who knew that the Tower of Pisa was the only leaning tower of Tuscany will have to think again. To compete for the title in the city are well 3 towers.
The Bell Tower of Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral in piazza del Duomo in Pisa , therefore, although certainly the most famous in the world is not alone.
In town, in località Le Piagge, just outside the old town stands the Church of San Michele degli Scalzi built between 1152 and 1171 whose Bell Tower, which stands on the right side of the building, is steeply raked.
Quadrangular, the second leaning tower of Pisa has an inclination of ben 5 degrees due to subsidence of the soil formed with floods of the Arno.
With a far superior, the Tower of the Church of San Michele beats the record of the most famous "Cousin", inclined by only (so to speak!) 4 degrees.
To make good company at two towers there is finally the octagonal Bell-Tower of the Church of San Nicola, in the historic centre of Pisa, which stands in this ideal of the 3rd place, with a slope of 2.5 degrees.
Given the presence of so many leaning towers a doubt rises spontaneously: the architects of the era would have perhaps had to take into account the etymology of the word "Pisa" that seems to come from the Greek "pîsos" which is watered, swamp? When you say: forewarned is forearmed.
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