Leaning Tower of Pisa
About Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, or simply the Tower of Pisa, is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation. The tower is one of three structures in Pisa's Cathedral Square, which includes the cathedral and Pisa Baptistry. Over time, the flawed tower has become one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world as well as an architectural icon of Italy, receiving over 5 million visitors each year.
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It's been leaning over more and more away from the House of Parliament, and they've worked out that if it keeps falling over at the rate it is falling over, in about 4,000 years' time, it'll be leaning as much as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
from No Such Thing As Chariots in Space, 2016-12-09 at 00:10:35 · read transcript
Other times Leaning Tower of Pisa came up
There's a nice one in Australia. This is called the leaning tower of Jinjin. It's purposefully built to be leaning and it's built at the gravity discovery center and they wanted to make it so that when you went to the Gravity Discovery Center that you could replicate by climbing the top Galileo's experiments on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So you could actually go up and you drop stuff down a shoot.
No Such Thing As Chariots in Space, 2016-12-09 · listen
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- Honda · Japan
Coordinates: 43.7231, 10.3964