Each of the next six stories contains 30 arches that surround the tower | It is constructed of white marble |
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Leaning Tower of Pisa Facts:• Square of Miracles, Baptistery The next building added was the baptistery just west of the dome |
Although it was designed to be perfectly vertical, it started to lean during construction.
30The top of the leaning tower of Pisa is about 17 feet off the vertical | Tower of Pisa stands at 60 metres and until 1990 was leaning at about a 10 degree angle |
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Although only a third as high as the Washington Monument, it was a miracle of medieval engineering, probably the tallest bell towers in Europe | Some contemporary sources speculate about the exact date; e |
The tower is also slightly curved from the attempts by various architects to keep it from leaning more or falling over.
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