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Bologna
city of Music Unesco |
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BOLOGNA
Monuments of Bologna
Le Due Torri
True symbol of the city, the two Towers dominate a crossing
of five roads,
which lead to a door of the ancient ones wall
Taken the name from the family of the Garisendi,
than made it to raise. Arrived to 61 meters, the tower
began to tilt itself for a yielding of the ground below
and the jobs were interrupted. Dante Alighieri, then student
of right near the University of Bologna, remained hit
very from the inclination of the tower, which it dedicated
some backs of the Divine Commedia, than can be read affected
one lapide to the feet of the Garisenda. For emergency
reasons, between the 1351 and 1360 Giovanni from Oleggio,
that it governed the city in name of the Visconti, it
made to shorten of 13 meters the tower, than today it
is high 48,16 meters. Its slope is of 3,22 meters towards
Saint way Vitale.
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The Tower of the Asinelli, highest of the city, was constructed
in the first years of XII the century. It is high 97,20
meters and it is wide 8 meters, while to the base, for the
presence dela salenite shoe of, has one width of approximately
9 meters. Slanted E' of 2,23 meters in direction of via
Rizzoli and this contributes to the characteristic aspect
of the two towers, in how much the Garisenda is tilted from
the opposite part
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"Qual pare a riguardar la Carisenda
sotto 'l chinato, quando un nuvol vada
sovr'essa sí, che ella incontro penda"
(Dante Alighieri, La Divina
Commedia, Inferno, XXXI, 136-138)
The other Towers
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it is said that a time to Bologna was approximately
two hundred towers, made to construct from the noble
ones near their rooms, like place of defense, or attack,
during the popular revolts.
Unfortunately the fights between families, the earthquakes
or the construction of more modern buildings have been
the cause of their passing.
They remain some however some anchor in feet: the Azzoguidi
Tower, in angle between Via Fallen of Cefalonia and
Altabella, with on the 61 meters of height, and the
Prendiparte Tower, situated close to the Archiepiscopal
Palace.
High 59 meters and has a decoration to riseghe close
to the top that has given the name to them of "Crowned
Tower".
Much particular one is instead the Galluzzi Tower: it
is high single 30 meters, but it has of the walls of
beyond three meters of thickness, the only way for acceddervi
is a window to approximately half height, the noble
ones of the Galluzzi family used in fact of ponit the
furnitures in wood that connected it with their houses;
it is situated behind the Church of Saint Petronio
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