Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Tower of the Piazza del Miracoli


We picked up a car – a little Peugeot 107 diesel, 3, 3 liters per 100 km (which is very economical because we drove nearly 4000 km with a fuel price of nearly 1.3 Euros a liter)!

From Rome we went to Pisa on a detour. Had to check if all the photographs we have ever seen were for real or taken by somebody like me! My photos usually would look like Pisa, but I promise you this is truly not me! So - Please do not blame moi for the Leaning Tower of Pisa!



The work on the ‘Leaning’ tower was begun by Pisano in about 1174 and had reached a height of approx 11 meters when there was a sudden subsidence of the ground which caused the first inclination of about 15 centimeters!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ha! Who's the supermodel in the foreground?
:)