Nice to Florence via Pisa today. Fairly short day on the road today, thankfully. Stopped off at a roadside rest stop and had some genuine Italian pizza for lunch then hit the road for Pisa.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa was started around 1100AD and finally finished in the 1300′s. It was built in three stages with the tower already leaning when the second stage was started. Over the years since completion most of the columns made from local stone have been replaced by ones made from stronger stone sourced from other parts of Italy. Recently work was done to pump concrete into the foundations of the tower to prevent it leaning any further and help reduce damage to the building.
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