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Leaning Stone: The Eight-Century Engineering Disaster That Accidentally Saved a City

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is globally celebrated as a marvel of medieval architecture, but its creation was actually a slow-motion catastrophe driven by human error, political warfare, and fundamentally flawed soil mechanics. From the moment the second floor was built in 1178, the tower began to sink.

Instead of tearing it down, generations of stubborn architects spent the next 800 years attempting to correct the lean. They added taller columns on one side, bent the bell tower, and poured to...