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 Terrace
overlooking
the tower Our large Terrace is a splendid background
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 Free
internet point & Free phone calls
There is a pc where all the guest are allow to use it
as much as they want to for surfing on internet and
check their mail also the hotel provide a WI-FI LAN
network
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 Transfer
service & Parking facilities
For the traveller they don't have their own means transport
they could be picked-up from us at airport or at the
station e-mail us for availability and further details.
If you came by car you can easily park your car in the
neiborhood but don't forget to get the authorizathion
from us
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Scooter,
Bike and Moto to Rent
Don't forget to take your
driving license with you We rent for our guest bike
scooter and moto at discounted rate e-mail us aironepisa@hotmail.com
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 Restaurant
RE artù is open for
lunch and dinner with is closed on sunday specialities
from Tuscany and seafood and large choice of
Chianti and many other Italian wine. Special menù
for Hotel resident
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 The Leaning Tower expresses the joys and sorrows of its
earlier 800 years and waits for a happy end to
its old-age convalescence with quiet wisdom.A widow, whose
name was Berta of Bernardo, living in the house of dell'Opera
di Santa Maria, the 5th of January 1172 left in her will
sixty "coins" to the "Opera Campanilis
petrarum Sancte Marie", to purchase some stones to
build the Tower. As far as the author is concerned there
is much uncertainty, experts are still arguing: Would
the architect have been Bonanno, marvellous bronze foundryman,
who afterwards made the first Cathedral's doors? Or Deotiusalvi,
one of the greatest architects of the XII century, who
founded the Battistero? Perhaps the work of Gerardo, who
had to cooperate more as a co-author and interpreter than
a simple executor of the orders given by Deotiusalvi?
Or Guidolotto, Designer of Santa Maria Maggiore? Or was
master Guglielmo, of German nationality, perhaps the same
one who, in about the year 1160, carried out the first
pulpit of the Cathedral ? Whoever has done it, the author
was fantastic. The only certainty is its date of birth,
9th August 1173. The plan of the bell tower exists and
it's an admirable one. Of course it isn't a design on
paper but documented in the Tower itself and in its measurements.
This is the way the construction of the Bell Tower began.
When the construction reached about one meter and half
of the third floor, because of marshy and unstable soil,
it leaned fearfully, so the works were suspended. The
events which led to the inclination of the Tower aren't
known. The proof we have are very uncertain. Surely two
phenomenon took place: the building subsidence due to
the excess weight and the soils of differential settlement,
which were the reasons for the inclination. The restarting
of the work took place in two phases, during which they
tried to reduce the slope. It is not known which height
was reached at the end of the first phase of the resumption,
before the intervention of Giovanni di Simone. The second
phase of the thirteenth-century, started probably about
the years 1272-1275 and perhaps consisted of the building
of four "loggette" (stories). In the sixth "loggetta"
some round arch windows for the bells were made. The slope
kept on worrying, so the Duomo's Institution the 15th
March 1298 gave Giovanni Pisano, Guido, who was the son
of the dead master Giovanni di Simone and Orsello, the
job of measuring the slope. Vasari ascribes the construction
of the belfry to Tommaso, who was the son of Andrea Pisano,
and it is usually dated, in the last studies, to the year
1350. The Bell Tower, because of its slope, which looks
like it dares the laws of statics, being one of the most
original works of art of the whole European Middle-Ages,
enjoys of an enormous popularity |
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Child
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