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The Tower is designed as a straight tower bell. The soil is perfectly levelled.
The foundation works begin.
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Once builders reach the top of the 3rd tier, the foundation gives up under the weight of the Tower.
The Tower is leaning. Works are stopped while the Architect is looking for a solution.
Meanwhile, Pisa goes to war with Genova.
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Giovanni de Simone built the Tower up to the 7th tier. A new war stops the construction works.
In a sea battle Pisa will be defeated by Genova.
It is the beginning of the decline of Pisa's power over the Mediterranean Sea.
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The construction of the 8th level begins under the supervision of architect Tommaso Pisano.
This will be the last floor of the Tower and it will take over 20 years to complete it. -
After 200 years since its foundation, the tower is finally finished.
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Benito Mussolini wants to make the leaning of the tower to disappear so his men try to restore the perfect vertical position it never had.
It's a disaster again: the Tower is leaning even more now. -
The tower is in danger of collapsing.
The angle of inclination far exceeds 5 ° and the structure needs immediate attention.
Following the collapse of another tower in Italy in 1989, the Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public and restoration work began. -
After more than a decade of work, the tower has lost more than 40 cm of lean.
The € 30 million project has been a great success. It brought the tower back to the lean it had 200 years ago.
The Tower is out of danger and opens its door again to the public. -