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Torre della Garisenda

Category: Sightseeing + Tours

Piazza di Porta Ravegnana, Bologna, 40125

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Torre della Garisenda, Bologna | MyTravelGuide.com
Built around the twelfth century, probably at the same time as the Asinelli tower was built, the leaning Garisenda tower is about 48m high. It is also called the Mozzata (Docked) tower, because it is said to have been hight than it now is. Dante Alighieri supports this hypothesis in the 31st canto o...
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Towers of the Asinelli and Garisenda (Torri degli Asinelli e Garisenda) - Bologna - Reviews of Towers of the Asinelli and Garisenda (Torri degli Asinelli e Garisenda) - TripAdvisor
Certainly no lift here, on the contrary 498 steep wooden steps to the top, a climb in a medievalinterior reminding you of certain passages in the film The Name Of The Rose ... The view...
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Tower of the Asinelli (Torre degli Asinelli) & Tower of the Garisenda (Torre degli Garisenda) | Museum/Attraction Review | Bologna | Frommers.com
Built by patricians in the 12th century, these leaning towers, the virtual symbol of Bologna, keep defying gravity year after year. In the Middle Ages, Bologna contained dozens of these skyscraper towers. The towers were status symbols: The more powerful the family was, the taller its tower was. The...
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