The square is also home to the Camposanto Monumentale and the Museo delle Sinopie meaning you can spend a whole day exploring just the sights of the square if you wish to. With its location in the beautiful Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracle Square), the tower is just one of several landmark buildings including Pisa's Cathedral and its Baptistery. Eleven years of work followed to make sure the tower was safe and had a future, eventually re-opening in 2001. ![]() ![]() ​Throughout the centuries, architects and engineers have studied the issues surrounding the tower's lean and when in 1990 it was discovered that the angle of the lean was becoming dangerous, the tower was closed. ![]() It was only after the over-effective corrective measures were taken to straighten it, that the tower started to lean southwards as it still does today.
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