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video Hey everybody its Bruce here with Traveling with Bruce today I've got a
video for you from Pisa Italy if you look at the top left corner you're gonna
see a big paved parking lot up there that holds tour buses from cruise ships
and everywhere else probably 50 tour buses at a time into Pisa
to come and see the Leaning Tower of Pisa and here's a Google Earth image a
second one I have of that area and you'll see at the bottom of the screen
here that's the gate where you come in and you have to run the gauntlet past
all of these tents and souvenir sellers and the pickpockets if they're really
watch yourself anyway once you're in the gate the first view you get is this one
and you begin to realize oh yeah I've seen this before
you haven't perhaps seen the structures on the far left but you sure know what's
at the back of the line here people everywhere taking photos like you
wouldn't believe of course that's what I did and it's
kinda neat to see the architecture and the design of this area crawling with
people they estimate a million tourists a year visit the Leaning Tower
of Pisa they broke ground on 1173 they finished it 199 years later in 1372
delays were the sinking of the foundation the odd war or two and funding they
eventually got it done is 183 feet tall so it's like a 19 storey building they
restored it - in 1999 and 2001 most recently to stabilize its tilt and
they've now capped the tilt at 3.99 degrees or if you're at the top you're
12 feet 10 inches off-center the engineers guesstimate that it won't
collapse anymore there's me doing what everybody does my dad did this in 1960 I
did it many others will it was declared a
UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 it's quite an amazing thing
to see you see people here about three or
four levels up you see at the bottom here restoration work still going on
leave it the Italians to figure out how scaffolding can surround a leaning tower
it's unbelievable all around the structure are additional
tourist stalls you'll see some of those in the minute I I cannot believe how
many there are they had to have been out 100 of them they all sell the same stuff
you know the same little trinkets the same little coffee mugs the same little
t-shirts and and keychains and that type of thing I don't know how they make it I
don't know how they stay in business they line this one street that it goes
for probably 300 meters unbelievable but the tourists are here at least 20 25
thousand a week I guess and in the summer it's higher in the winter it's
lower and you guys got to make sure you keep your valuables in a safe place
because you never know if you lose it there's a shot I was talking about you
can see the stalls on the left hand side going all the way down anyway it's still
a fun experience you don't get to see a place like this every day but you
wouldn't want to see it every day I'd hate to work there but anyway Pisa its
if you can make it part of a day trip with a cruise for us it worked out
because we did Florence and Pisa all in one day and look at all that trinkets
all those trinkets available unbelievable
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