{"id":45943,"date":"2013-10-28T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=45943"},"modified":"2013-10-28T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:27:36","slug":"its-the-straightening-tower-of-pisa-italian-landmark-loses-2-5cm-of-its-famous-tilt-after-25m-salvage-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=45943","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the STRAIGHTENING Tower of Pisa: Italian landmark loses 2.5cm of its famous tilt after \u00a325m salvage project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-45940\" alt=\"\u054a\u056b\u0566\u0561\u0575\u056b \u0561\u0577\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa1.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa1-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its perilous incline has defied gravity since the 12th century.<\/p>\n<p>But now the Leaning Tower of Pisa has lost some of its famous tilt, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>An annual report on the monument\u2019s stability has revealed that the tower had spontaneously recovered some of its vertical incline-straightening by 2.5cm since 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45941\" alt=\"\u054a\u056b\u0566\u0561\u0575\u056b \u0561\u0577\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tower-of-pisa-412x300.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously the 56m bell tower\u2019s tilt was increasing by more than a millimetre a year creating a danger that it could collapse altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993 it was leaning by 5.4m, compared to 3.8m in 1817 and just 1.4m in 1350.<\/p>\n<p>The 14,500-tonne tower was shut for a decade while the foundations were reinforced and water was drained from beneath. Supporting steel cables were placed in circles around the structure.<\/p>\n<p>After the \u00a325million project, the tower straightened itself almost immediately by 38cm.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 study by a scientific committee tasked with monitoring the celebrated building confirmed &#8216;that the bell tower is stable but tending to straighten&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Bentivoglio, technical director of the monument, said that the tower&#8217;s future is secure for another two- or three-hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>The tower brings in six million visitors to Pisa every year with three million buying tickets to climb its eight floors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its perilous incline has defied gravity since the 12th century. But now the Leaning Tower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[3234],"class_list":["post-45943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-pisa","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}