this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
65 points (98.5% liked)

Europe

8484 readers
1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

  1. Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
  2. No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
  3. No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
poVoq@slrpnk.net
65
Bologna seals off ‘leaning tower’ over fears it is tilting too far (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] letmesleep@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

the fact that a country brags more than one leaning tower is a bit concerning.

On the contrary. It speaks for the quality of its buildings in general. Engineering isn't easy, especially if you're doing it with medieval math. Hence things will go wrong. But the leaning buildings in Italy tell me that Italian builders accounted for that and build their structures to last even when things go wrong. Hence it does indeed make me feel safer in any old building that isn't leaning.