Pisa’s Tower Bells to Stop Ringing
The bells in Italy’s leaning tower of Pisa will be silenced because experts fear their vibration could affect work to stop it from collapsing, city said Friday.
It will be the first time in the tower’s 800-year history that all seven of its bells have been taken out of service at the same time. The city said the bells will ring again when restoration work is finished, probably by the end of the year.
The 187-foot bell tower, which was built in 1173 and leans 16 feet off the perpendicular, was shut in January, 1990, because experts said it was a danger to the public.
The request to stop the bells from tolling came from the committee which oversees work on the tower. Earlier this week, the committee’s president announced that the tower could reopen to the public in early 1994.
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