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(PISA, Italia, 29 September 2001) by Guglielmo Vezzosi PISA- It is blue sky above the Tower in Piazza dei Miracoli: on December 15 the bell tower will reopen to visitors. The green light arrived during the last reunion of the committee entrusted to study suitable safety measures and in this method it has been possible to fix the date. The announcement was made officially yesterday by the president of the Work of the Primaziale, Pierfrancesco Pacini, together with mayor Paul Fontanelli and the president of the international Committee, Michele Jamiolkowski. As expected they confirmed times announced last June 16 on occasion of the festivities for the end of the work of consolidation (lasting 11 years) and to redeliver the "recovered" Tower to the whole world. It comes then to the end the closing to the public, the longest since 1896, the year in which the Tower was open to the public for the first time (during the war the front door was barred only from June 19 to September 11 of 1944). The first ticket cost 30 cents, raised over time until in 1990 the cost was 4 thousand lire. Now 25-30 thousand lire are mentioned, but the price has not yet been fixed. In 1989 more than a million visitors came, a record destined to stay unbeaten, since there will no longer be indiscriminate access to the monument. The details are not known, but "for certain", explains president Pacini, "it will be climbed in guided groups, maximum thirty people; soon it will be possible to book tickets on Internet by means of the site www.duomo.pisa.it. "It will be climbed up to the summit, but for safety reasons it will be forbidden to lean out from the lower loggias. Under study", adds Pacini, "is the possibility to use mobile balusters put at an intermediary height and use on particular occasions". But installations and its enjoyment by the public must not damage the monument in any way. In the next weeks the electric plant will be completed and rebuilding of the basin around the plinth of the Tower will end, and the beginning of the work to reconstruct the workyard. "Finding the proper materials to cover of the basin", observes president Pacini, "has been most difficult. Also as the restoration of the masonry mantle of the Tower begins, why is it not possible to reopen the quarry at San Giuliano from which stone was taken in antiquity, in fact much of the material used for the four monuments of plaza of the Miracles? It is a very handsome stone, tending to yellow, it would be ideal for the interventions for restoration. The formalities of the operation are being examined together with the Commune, the Region, and with competent authorities". |
(PISA, Italia, 29 September 2001) by Guglielmo Vezzosi PISA- It is blue sky above the Tower in Piazza dei Miracoli: on December 15 the bell tower will reopen to visitors. The green light arrived during the last reunion of the committee entrusted to study suitable safety measures and in this method it has been possible to fix the date. The announcement was made officially yesterday by the president of the Work of the Primaziale, Pierfrancesco Pacini, together with mayor Paul Fontanelli and the president of the international Committee, Michele Jamiolkowski. As expected they confirmed times announced last June 16 on occasion of the festivities for the end of the work of consolidation (lasting 11 years) and to redeliver the "recovered" Tower to the whole world. It comes then to the end the closing to the public, the longest since 1896, the year in which the Tower was open to the public for the first time (during the war the front door was barred only from June 19 to September 11 of 1944). The first ticket cost 30 cents, raised over time until in 1990 the cost was 4 thousand lire. Now 25-30 thousand lire are mentioned, but the price has not yet been fixed. In 1989 more than a million visitors came, a record destined to stay unbeaten, since there will no longer be indiscriminate access to the monument. The details are not known, but "for certain", explains president Pacini, "it will be climbed in guided groups, maximum thirty people; soon it will be possible to book tickets on Internet by means of the site www.duomo.pisa.it. "It will be climbed up to the summit, but for safety reasons it will be forbidden to lean out from the lower loggias. Under study", adds Pacini, "is the possibility to use mobile balusters put at an intermediary height and use on particular occasions". But installations and its enjoyment by the public must not damage the monument in any way. In the next weeks the electric plant will be completed and rebuilding of the basin around the plinth of the Tower will end, and the beginning of the work to reconstruct the workyard. "Finding the proper materials to cover of the basin", observes president Pacini, "has been most difficult. Also as the restoration of the masonry mantle of the Tower begins, why is it not possible to reopen the quarry at San Giuliano from which stone was taken in antiquity, in fact much of the material used for the four monuments of plaza of the Miracles? It is a very handsome stone, tending to yellow, it would be ideal for the interventions for restoration. The formalities of the operation are being examined together with the Commune, the Region, and with competent authorities". |
