Over the weekend I was lucky enough to go visit Pisa-about an hour train ride from Florence-and see the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa!
It is very surreal to see it in person. It was one of those "seen-it-a-million-times-on-TV-slash-internet-and-oh-my-god-it's-in-front-of-my-face" kind of moments.
We were walking from the train station to the tower for quite awhile along a relatively suburban area (Pisa's suburbia) when all of a sudden...
While the tower itself is beautiful, we can't forget the cathedral right next to it..
You may know why the tower is leaning or you may not...it is simply because the foundation it was built on was extremely unstable, therefore it began to lean. The architects decided to let the foundation settle for about a century (obviously by then they were dead...) and the tower was finished, still leaning, in 1370. Since then it's most recent restoration was in 2001 to keep things pretty.
This small day trip to Pisa made me want to travel even more around Europe. I suffer from a bad case of wanderlust, no doubt.
Ciao for now!
