Place to see: Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa, Italy

About this place:

It’s not secret that the ‘Campanile’ (bell tower), as the leaning tower is really called, became one of the most important landmarks not only for Pisa but for the whole Italy as well, but the rest of the monuments of the stunning Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) well worth a deep visit.
This magnificent place hosts:

-IL DUOMO, the cathedral made by grey marble, in which you can find among other precious things a very nice mosaic of Christ in Majesty located in the apse.

-THE BAPTISTERY, a peculiar round Romanesque style building, crowned with an absolutely marvellous gothic style dome.

- The CAMPOSANTO MONUMENTALE, the monumental cemetery, with its gothic cloister decorated with sculptures, sarcophagus and fresco paintings, although unfortunately not many of them survived a II world war fatal bombing on 27 July 1944. Happily, some restorations allow us nowadays to see the cemetery the way it was meant to be.

-The LEANING TOWER, which reaches 183ft above the ground level. Initially, it was meant to be vertical but due to the unstable sub soil in which it was built, it started to incline already during the beginning of its construction, in August 1173. Many efforts were made in order to correct the inclination but none of them totally succeeded. However, its rare leaning condition became surprisedly its sign of identity and at present days, it stays stable at almost four degrees of steepness.