The Tower of Pisa was built to show the rest of the world the wealth of the city of Pisa. The people of Pisa were very good sailors and they conquered many lands, including Jerusalem, Carthago, Ibiza, Mallorca, Africa, Belgium, Britania, Norway, Spain, Morocco, and other places. But they had only one real enemy, the people from Florence. And to show how well they were doing they started to build a really useless belltower to …
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…Tower was more than 90 cm., a difference that could be taken as a tormented mutation of the Tower, but it did not distress those people who were most affected by its construction and its completion. Long phases of delay during the construction, dictated, most probably, by any small war or political disruption, made the bell tower "rest", and, most importantly, the Tower was able to settle into the ground and stabilize its most famous lean.