Tag: Bologna (Italy)

Bologna Looks to the Leaning Tower of Pisa for Tips to Stop Garisenda’s Tilt

Leaning for centuries at a worrisome tilt, the Garisenda Tower in Bologna has endured insults and trauma. Dickens called it “sufficiently unsightly,” if extraordinary, while Goethe said it was “a spectacle that disgusts.” And then there were the earthquakes, the Allied bombing raids of the city during World War II and urbanization that doomed other […]

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