Pisa

Mara, Beth and I went to Pisa on Thursday last week. We went up the Leaning Tower. The tower was built in 1173 because of a poor foundation and soft soil it started to lean. Then, the construction was stopped for almost a century. Then, in 1272 the construction started again and the architect added more floors and had those floors tilted the other way to try to correct the lean. That made the tower lean a little bit to the other direction. Now the tower is curved because of this. The tower is still being restored from corrosion and blackening. The tower is really cool! After the tower we went into the Duomo. We saw Galileo's lamp which is called that because Galileo looked at it and it was swinging back and forth each swing the same height and he discovered a new idea.