Curious title, isn’t it? Well that is what the small descriptive movie about the Leaning Tower said in Pisa. It is interesting, indeed, but I do not know if I would categorize it as a “Wonder of the World” 🙂 . Anyway, it is a MUST when visiting Italy, being a representative building all over the world.
On route to Firenze from Genova, one must switch trains in Pisa and usually there is at least a 30 minute waiting time, to the next train. We decided, to extend that period to a few hours, and visit the famous building.
Getting from the Pisa Centrale train station to the Piazza del Duomo is really easy: just take a bus from the red bus line. There is a bus stop just across the road from the train station. One can purchase a ticket on the bus also (€1.5).
Tourists can visit any of the museums on the piazza for a small fee (from €3 to €6 and there is no entry fee for the dome). Going up to the tower is a bit pricier: €15 just to climb up. After some thinking, I said, why not… it might be a missed opportunity, if I do not to go up, so I paid the ticket.
It was actually quite an experience to go up on the spiraling staircase to the top: the fact that the tower is leaning, can be felt really intensely. On the top there is a unique view awaiting the curious tourists: looking down on the side which leans towards the ground can be a pretty dazzling experience 😀 .
There are some photos uploaded to my Picasa account.