Are they trying to stop it leaning anymore?
2006-06-19 11:38:36 · 42 answers · asked by Midnight Dynamo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No, it won't fall, unless some extreme act of nature topples it. It's a famous landmark and has people working to keep it in shape year round. In addition to that, the tower actually started leaning while it was under construction. So the architect redesigned the top two stories to counteract the settlement. If you look at a picture of it close up, you can see the columns in the top two stories don't line up with the ones below. The cause of the leaning was a combination of having too small a footing on loose, sandy soil.
2006-06-19 11:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 2 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Efforts for the restabilization of the Leaning Tower of Pisa began in 1967. In December of 2001, after decades of work by an international coalition of engineers, the tower was declared stable for at least another 300 years. You can read about it in Wikipedia. The link is below.
2006-07-03 09:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by Privratnik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes as the Tower is affected by subsidence.
I understand cos the Tower is such an Italian landmark there is a very big project to have it lean but not of course lean too far so it topples over due the horizontally challenged americans standing at the top.
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2006-07-01 01:54:20 · answer #3 · answered by realdragonflame 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, eventually. For now though they have done a lot of work to stabalise it. Basically it was built on soft ground, so propping it up isn't very helpful. They have had to counterweight it and build an artificial bedrock for it to sit on. Should be good for many years yet and plenty of corny photo ops..
2006-06-19 11:47:30 · answer #4 · answered by qatpoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably if nothing gets done about it. Architects and engineers can't figure out what to do about it. The rumblings of the heavy traffic flow around it bring the tower closer to its demise
2006-06-19 11:41:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They control the lean with hydraulics now to prevent from going to far....they can straighten it out but leave it leaning for tourist purposes.
2006-06-19 11:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by WyattEarp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it is either already stabilized or it soon will be.
The government figured that they'd better save it before their big tourist attraction falls over.
For a long time they had decided not to, then it got critical and they thought better of it.
2006-06-30 01:09:39 · answer #7 · answered by ha_mer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Piza's leaning tower is not leaning any more
2006-06-29 12:47:59 · answer #8 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The foundations have been stabilized to some considerable cost, for at least another 300 years.
2006-06-19 11:44:54 · answer #9 · answered by Kreb D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It want be called leaning
Piza if it falls,
It will be called laying Piza.
2006-06-27 14:04:57 · answer #10 · answered by technocase 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋