In more recent years though, curiosity about these questions has perhaps given way to those famous pictures everyone and their mother takes when first confronted with Italy's most famous tower. Was it designed to slant? Why hasn't anyone fixed it? How on earth does it not fall over?
This tower's treacherous trajectory, its seeming desire to slope southward millimetre by millimetre over nearly a millennium of existence, has befuddled and beguiled everyone throughout the ages. Computer models had predicted that the maximum incline the structure could tolerate before toppling over in an explosion of white marble, was an angle 5.44 degrees.īefore work started, it was at 5.5 degrees. In the early 90s, a team of expert engineers were tasked with taking the Leaning Tower of Pisa back from its tipping point. When does it become important to be wrong, rather than right?
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