Teks Deskriptif Tentang Menara Pisa (In English)

Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile or bell tower of the cathedral in Pisa, Italy.

Tower of Pisa is actually made to stand vertically like a bell tower in general, but began leaning soon after construction started in August 1173. It is located behind the cathedral and is the third building Campo dei Miracoli (Field rainbow) city of Pisa.

The tower height is 55.86 m from ground level lows and 56.70 m high from ground level. The width of the wall below 4.09 m and 2.48 m at the top. Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tons. Tower of Pisa has 294 steps. With the existence of this tower, the revenue sector for their economy was growing attraction.

Construction of the Tower of Pisa was performed in three phases within a period of 200 years.

Construction of the first floor of the white marble campanile rocky starts on August 9, 1173, that the era of military success and prosperity. The first floor is surrounded by pillars with classical letter, which is directed sideways against arch sunshade.

the construction of this tower is to place a large clock on the top of the tower. However, some time after construction began, it turns out that 55-meter high tower to deviate from a straight line along the 5 meter.

Therefore the tower is referred to as the leaning tower of Pisa. Up to now, the efforts of the engineers and experts of various countries, the slope of the towers has been fixed up to certain limits.

After the third floor was built in 1178, the tower began leaning due to the foundation stands on land that is not stable. Finally, the design of the tower is different from the original plan.

This development was also delayed for 100 years because the people of Pisa that time fighting with people from other regions. But, because of that delay, the tower can actually survive. If it is not postponed, indeed it could even going to fall.

At 1198 hours some fruit is placed in a building that has not finished it. About 74 years later, the architect Giovanni di Simone resumes construction of the tower.

Not long after, the construction was again stopped because there was a war. Finally, in 1372 so also the last floor is a space of bells and bell were installed there. This construction is made by a different architect, namely Tommasso di Andrea Pisano. He successfully combines these elements in a room Gothic style bell with Roma. In this tower there are about seven bells. The biggest bell is installed around 1655.

From this tower, emerging stories of unique and makes excited. For example, the astronomer Galileo Galilei had dropped two balls of different weight from the tower. This is to show that the speed is reduced from the second ball was not because of the weight. But reports say the story is a fairy tale.

However, what really happened was the order of the ruler of Italy at that time Benito Mussolini ordered that the tower be returned to a vertical or upright position. To execute the command, was given additional concrete tower foundations. Apparently, the results are not as expected. The tower even more sinking into the soft ground.

When World War II, the US military almost destroyed the Tower of Pisa is for fear of snipers there. Fortunately, the withdrawal of troops to save the tower.

There is controversy about the identity of the architect of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. For several years designers predicated to Guglielmo and Bonanno Pisano, a prominent local artists of the 12th century in Pisa, which is popular by bronze molds, particularly in the Pisa Duomo. Bonanno Pisano left Pisa in 1185 leading to Monreale, Sicily, only to return home and died in his hometown. Her sarcophagus was found at the base of the tower in 1820.

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