The Tower of Pisa is the bell tower of the Cathedral. Its construction began in the august of 1173 and continued for about two hundred years. In the past it was widely believed that the inclination of the Tower was part of the project ever since its beginning, but now we know that it is not so.
When the workers were constructing the third floor of the tower in Pisa, it was already evident, that
this building would end up leaning. So the foundation of the Pisa tower settled unevenly from the very beggining.
Despite of this fact, they decided to continue the building of it. That was not a small decision to make, seeing as the work had been going on for 177 years.
The leaning increased during the construction time and in the years to follow. It was a tower of shame for years to come. The constructor Bonanno Pisano didn’t like to show himself in public. The inhabitants found it a shame to live in a city where not even a tower could be built straight. Until people started seeing the beauty in the leaning. The leaning tower of Pisa has established itself as a main tourist attraction of the world in the last years.

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