Now to see what Pisa is famous for :- The Leaning tower .
However as is my wont some info and gen about the tower.( Taken from wiki )
Being a free standing bell tower,( meaning the bell tower does not form part of the church or the cathedral structure, which was a common practice , here it stands separately) It has 7 bell which are tuned to musical scale.The heaviest bell is 3620 Kgs , lightest 300 kgs and others fall in between .No pun intended :-) . Total weight of all seven bells is 13,496 Kgs.Which is almost 13.5 metric tonnes !!!!
However as is my wont some info and gen about the tower.( Taken from wiki )
The tower has seven floors.The height of the tower is 183.27 ft from the ground on the low side and 186.02 ft on the high side. The the walls base is 13.42 ft and at the top 8.14 ft. The tower has 296 steps. Prior to restoration work performed between 1990 and 2001, the tower leaned at an angle of 5.5 degrees, but the tower now leans at about 3.99 degrees .This means that the top of the tower is displaced horizontally 12 ft 10 in from where it would be if the structure were perfectly vertical.
A popular tourist activity is to pose for photographs pretending to "hold up" the leaning tower and preventing it from falling. Too true . I have taken a photo of Priti doing just that :-)Being a free standing bell tower,( meaning the bell tower does not form part of the church or the cathedral structure, which was a common practice , here it stands separately) It has 7 bell which are tuned to musical scale.The heaviest bell is 3620 Kgs , lightest 300 kgs and others fall in between .No pun intended :-) . Total weight of all seven bells is 13,496 Kgs.Which is almost 13.5 metric tonnes !!!!
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