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On the south side of the tower, the soil is slightly more compressible, which is why the foundations of the building sank in that direction. Why does Pisa Tower lean?Īssuming the design was not intentional, the most popular theory about the tower’s lean is simply that the soil it was built on wasn’t strong enough to support the weight – basically it had too much sand and silt in it from the flooding of a nearby river estuary. It’s fascinating to discover that the architecture of almost a thousands years ago still baffles experts of today. For years scientists and engineers have studied the building, trying to work out how it happened, how to fix it and how to stop it unexpectedly falling on top of a bunch of tourists one day! What better way to make your city renowned through all the lands than with an iconic building that has no equal in the world? Well, maybe, but…

These ‘experts’ claim it may have been because of Pisa’s rivalry with Florence at the time that the city wanted something to distinguish itself. There’s a school of thought that says the slant of the tower in Pisa was no accident. Perhaps it was meant to be built like that! Perhaps it’s all a marketing scam, this leaning tower thing.

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