![]() ![]() The tower is expected to open to the public in November 2001. Four cables -100 meters long and weighing 4 tons each -, had been placed to balance the tower during excavation in case of a possible collapse. Comment Jordan King Friday 12:45 pm Italy’s famous 12th-century Tuscan tower has an almost four-degree tilt (Picture: Getty) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has straightened itself by. Construction workers remove steel cables known as “suspenders” from the base Leaning Tower of Pisa, central Italy, Tuesday, May 15, 2001, which had been placed in 1998 to support the tower during reinforcement excavations. The Leaning Tower of Pisa ( Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower.Seen here is a close-up of the bells in the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy, February 5, 1966.22, 2018, after more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recovered four centimeters (1.57 inches) and is in better structural health than predicted. ![]() The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is seen at right next to the medieval cathedral of Pisa, in Piazza dei Miracoli Square, in Pisa, Italy, Sunday, Jan.This views shows how they adjusted the building during construction. ![]()
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