The Tower of Pisa was built to show the rest of the world the wealth of the city of Pisa. The people of Pisa were very good sailors and they conquered many lands, including Jerusalem, Carthago, Ibiza, Mallorca, Africa, Belgium, Britania, Norway, Spain, Morocco, and other places. But they had only one real enemy, the people from Florence. And to show how well they were doing they started to build a really useless belltower to go with the rest of the buildings near it - the Cathedral, Baptistery, and Cemetery.

Yes people the Tower of Pisa is nothing more than a bell tower, but because my last name is Pisa I find it a very interesting tower.

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In the opinion of Professor Piero Pierotti, an architectural historian, the construction materials of significant weight and the functional characteristics created by the staircase, preventing reduction of the masonry toward the top, left few options to resolve the lean. Therfore, determined to resume the job in 1275, over a century after laying of the first stone, it came to be that Giovanni of Simone undertook the construction of three more floors. In 1284, the six gallery floors were completed, carrying the height of the construction to 48 meters. The accomplished technician mitigated, though still not level to the eye, the effect of the inclination by raising ...Essay still continues 100 more words...