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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located, or as it is called in italyn (Torre Torre Pendente di Pisa) in Italy, specifically in the city of Pisa (in English: Pisa City), located in the Tuscany region on the alluvial plain located on the Arno River, so that it is a distance of it up to About six miles from the Ligurian Sea, and fifty miles west of Florence, which is the fifth largest city in the region in terms of population with a population of about 77,007 people, knowing that it is about six meters above sea level, located along a longitude of 10.40, and latitude 43.71.
About the Leaning Tower
The Leaning Tower is classified as one of the most important and well-known inclined buildings around the world, as it was built and designed at that time in order to draw the attention of citizens to the cathedral of the church, knowing that its design was in the form of a bell, where its construction dates back to the year 1173 AD, and was established from marble, and arrived Its height is about fifty-five meters.
The reason for Milan Leaning Tower of Pisa
The leaning of the Leaning Tower began when its height reached three floors, and the construction process stopped several times, due to the wars that flared up at that time, and attempts to adjust the curvature during its construction made it tilted and curved, and directly affected the straightness of its construction vertically, and in the late twentieth century the amount of deviation became The tower was approximately 4.5 m or 5.5 degrees, which is equivalent to 15 feet, and many efforts were made to maintain it, which led to a slight decrease in its degree of inclination, as it became tilted at an angle of less than 4.0 degrees, where they used about 660 tons of lead to reinforce and install it, and when By 1995, steel cables had been used Installed with underground platforms to adjust its inclination.
