Leaning Tower of Pisa 'now leaning less'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Leaning Tower of Pisa 'now leaning less'

22 November 2018

It's enough to give a monument an identity crisis.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its precarious tilt - but now experts have revealed it's going straight.

The tower's Surveillance Group, which monitors restoration work, said the landmark is "stable and very slowly reducing its lean."

The 57m (186ft) medieval monument has been straightened by 4cm (1.5in) over the past two decades, the team said.

"It's as if it's had two centuries taken off its age," Professor Salvatore Settis explained.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46300789


The Leaning Tower of Pisa is now stable and has actually been straightened slightly thanks to restoration work

[Mosby]

1. i read an article about this years ago

The rate of change for the tilting was increasing and they called in a lot of experts to come up with ideas to rectify the problem. Most of the ideas involved an immediate solution like propping up the building and reinforcing the foundation. there was this soil guy though who figured out a better but slower solution, put weights on the other side of the building that would slowly compress the foundation on that side until the angle was reduced. It appears that it has worked.

It's a good example of actually "thinking outside the box" because he was able to look at the problem a different way and see that the solution did not have to be immediate.