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It was cited several times by Dante in the Divine Comedy and The Rhymes, a confirmation of his stay in Bologna, [1] and by Goethe in his Italian Journey. The Two Towers were the subject of an eponymous poem by Giosuè Carducci as part of the Barbarian Odes. Charles Dickens wrote about the towers in his Pictures from Italy. [6]
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One of Bologna’s famous “twin towers” which dominate the city center, the 48-meter (158 feet) Garisenda was built in the 12th century when Bologna was a mini Manhattan, with dozens of towers ...
The city on Friday announced 4.3 million euros ($4.7 million) in works to shore up the Garisenda tower, one of the so-called Two Towers that look out over central Bologna, providing inspiration ...
The 48-meter (158 feet) Garisenda tower was built in the 12th century, during a boom period of the northern city’s history, but two centuries later it had already begun to tilt.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, an iconic leaning tower. This is a list of leaning towers.A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction, or subsequent external influence such as unstable ground), does not stand perpendicular to the ground.
The works come after Lucia Borgonzoni, an undersecretary for Italy’s ministry of culture representing the right-wing Northern League, set alarm bells ringing about the tower’s safety.
The taller tower is called the Asinelli while the smaller but more leaning tower is called the Garisenda. The Asinelli Tower was built between 1109 and 1119 by the Asinelli family. At 97m tall, there are 498 steps inside. The Garisenda Tower is shorter at 47m and is known for its steep overhang due to subsidence of the foundations. In October ...