City officials in Bologna have closed a city-center square as they study what to do about the Garisenda Tower. A solution could take years. By Gaia Pianigiani The Garisenda Tower in Bologna is not ...

It’s become Italy’s other “leaning tower.” And now, after mounting concern that the Torre Garisenda in Bologna might be on the verge of collapse, a plan has been hatched to save it using ...

The Tower of Garisenda, twinned by the nearby Asinelli Tower, is one of Bologna's hallmark sights, standing at just over 150 feet tall. But it has been leaning since at least the 14th century when ...

The city on Friday announced $4.7 million in works to shore up the Garisenda tower, one of the so-called Two Towers that look out over central Bologna, providing inspiration over the centuries to ...

It might not be Italy's most famous leaning tower, but the Garisenda Tower has now got the whole country's attention as scientists find it is at risk of collapsing. Scientists from the ...

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Charles Dickens was struck by it when traveling around Italy. And now the medieval Garisenda “leaning” tower in Bologna is sparking very modern publicity, with concern that it might be subsiding.

The Garisenda tower is currently at a slant of four degrees, in comparison to Italy’s other famous Leaning Tower, in Pisa, which is angled at five degrees Getty A historic landmark in Bologna ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Bologna Leaning for centuries at a worrisome tilt, the Garisenda Tower in Bologna has endured insults and trauma. Dickens called it “sufficiently unsightly ...

But Italy has another leaning tower, the 150-foot high Garisenda, a 12th century structure in Bologna that was recently closed while engineers rush to prevent its collapse. Correspondent Seth ...

Like the more famous Tower of Pisa, the 12th-century Garisenda tower has leaned for centuries, as the ground on which it was built gave way soon after its construction. In October 2023 ...