The 48-meter (158 feet) Garisenda tower was built in the 12th century, during a boom period of the northern city’s history, but two centuries later it had already begun to tilt.
Today, it leans at an angle of four degrees, just a little more than the Pisa tower’s current 3.9-degree slant.
A rendering showing how the equipment from the Tower of Pisa will be used on the Garisenda tower.
Michele Lapini/Getty ImagesWhile less well known than its counterpart at Pisa, the Torre Garisenda has long been a tourist attraction in Bologna.
Today the bell tower is a stable monument mainly thanks to those steel pylons which will hopefully give the Garisenda tower a second life.
Persons:
CNN — It’s, Matteo Lepore, ” Lepore, Lepori, Michele Lapini, Torre Garisenda, Dante Aligher’s, Asinelli
Organizations:
CNN, Torre, Pisa tower’s, Bologna Bologna’s, “, UNESCO
Locations:
Bologna, Pisa, Garisenda