An adjacent cemetery, the marble-encased Camposanto, would complete the project. The origins of the tower go back to the 12th century, when Pisa’s city fathers decided to celebrate the power and spiritual authority of their state with the erection of a superb marble cathedral and baptistery, topped off by a great campanile or bell tower. If the proposed solutions here in Pisa were new, the problem was not. The issue was not so much the restoration of a fading or eroding work of art dating from long ago. The Leaning Tower, which all came to see and perhaps had hoped to climb, was out of bounds, encased in scaffolding-with copious explanations about how here, in the Piazza dei Miracoli, the latest miracles of modern science would finally freeze the tower’s historic tilt. In the 1990s, as tourists in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel marvelled at the renewed brightness of Michelangelo’s ceiling, visitors to Pisa were in for a let-down. Like the figures on a rotating weather vane, one great building or gallery pops out for all to see just as another goes into hiding for a while. This offset, due to town legend, was due to wine being used instead of water for the top floor during a serious drought.Italy is crammed with historic works of art in need of restoration. The 13th century tower in Kitzingen is distinctive for its crooked roof due to top floor being offset.The 14th-century bell tower of the Church of Our Dear Lady in Bad Frankenhausen.The Leaning Tower of Dausenau ( Schiefer Turm von Dausenau) (slightly further leaning than the Tower of Suurhusen, disqualified by Guinness World Records for being a ruin instead of a tower).at an angle which was according to Guinness World Records in 2007 the greatest for an unintentionally tilted tower The Leaning Tower of Suurhusen, Schiefer Turm von Suurhusen.The Leaning Tower of Gau-Weinheim (lean 5.4277° on 15 July 2022, greater than Suurhusen).
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