The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Thousands of people visit Pisa’s famous tower

each year and wonder just how much longer it can

exist without falling.

Millions of dollars have been spent to stop the

tower crashing to the ground. Soft, shifting soil has

always been the tower’s problem. Recently, it was

discovered that the tower had moved two millimeters.

This was a great setback because engineers had

previously corrected about twenty millimeters of the

lean by using an inventive underground cables idea

to straighten the tower. Pisa would hate to lose its

precious Campo dei Miracoli and the tourist dollars

it generates.