World’s one the most iconic monument, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, is finally stable now and even slightly straightened slightly, experts said on Wednesday
After 17-years of restoration observation, “the Tower of Pisa is stable and very slowly reducing its lean,” tower’s Surveillance Group which was set to look after the restoration work.
Engineering Professor Nunziante Squeglia of Pisa University was quoted in a report saying that “the 57-metre (186-feet) monument had straightened by four centimetres (1.5 inches).”
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Reportedly, the Tower was closed to the public in January 1990 for 11 years over safety fears, as its tilt reached 4.5 meters (15 feet) from the vertical. It has since been straightened by more than 40 centimetres.
The medieval tower, a symbol of the power of the maritime republic of Pisa in the Middle Ages, has leaned to one side ever since building started in 1173.
(With agencies input)