Monday 1 January 2001, 17: 31
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(AGI)- Pisa, 1 Jan. - 2001 will be a year important for the Tower of Pisa. After a decade of restorations and of interventions of consolidation, the keys of the bell tower of Bonanno will be in fact be redelivered to the city by the commitee of experts that have worked to put it in safety.
The results up until now are a straightening of 35 cm. and it is foreseen that the reduction of the inclination will be 38 cm. by Spring. Pierfrancesco Pacini, President of the Work of the Primaziale, has remembered that the date of its redelivery is already fixed for next 17 June, the celebration of St. Ranieri's Day, patron of the city. This year, in honor of the Tower, Verdi's Requiem Mass, with Andrea Bocelli, will be held. Pacini has also said that, in 2000, visitors to the monuments of Piazza dei Miracoli have increased by 14%, while the number that have transited through the piazza has been estimated at around 10 million. (AGI) |
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(AGI)- Pisa, 4 January - Eleven years ago- January 7 1990- the Tower of Pisa was closed to the public. Today, nearing its redelivery to the city, the first work of "embellishment" is being initiated. In fact, the cables applied at the height of the second floor, to avoid structural movement of the monument, are being replaced with others, of stainless steel, that will bandage the bell tower at the same height. The motive of this substitution is to make the belt "invisible", whose width is reduced from 30 to 14 centimeters.
Besides, the new one - constituted of more than 100 small cables, each of the diameter of spaghetti, would have an unlimited duration in the time. (AGI) |
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