As of June 1999, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned an inch ... if the tower were to lose its lean. The Pisa Commission only seeks to lessen the angle by a small amount. NOVA: And the tourists ...

Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun. Each day, hordes of visitors come to the small northwestern Tuscan town of Pisa to take pictures "propping up" its tower. Some do it ...

Built on the shifting sands of a former estuary, the Leaning Tower of Pisa probably began tilting not long after medieval laborers laid its first foundation stones. In the 800 years since ...

It’s become Italy’s other “leaning tower.” And now ... Today, it leans at an angle of four degrees, just a little more than ...

Incidentally, the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilted at an angle of 4 degrees, lesser as compared to this, the tilt of ...

When we talk about buildings that tilt captivatingly, you might immediately think of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. But there are lots of buildings that slope, some quite alarmingly, around ...

Have you ever wondered if the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a catastrophe waiting to happen? In this one-minute video, Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze explains how architects and engineers spent the ...

Their instruments ring out from iconic places like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Vatican. The workshop has survived nearly 1,000 years of wars and hardship, but it's a crisis of faith that is ...

The UK is home to many famous landmarks, but few are as iconic as its world-famous clock tower. While it may seem perfectly upright, experts have discovered that it has a slight tilt - one that ...