A wise woman once stated the title phrase and I have decided to share with all you lovely people why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is more then just a leaning tower. The tower is actually a campanile, Italian for bell tower, which accompanies the cathedral of Pisa. This cathedral was the first to use what is now called the "Pisan-Romenesque" style which is usually characterized by green and white marble stripes, as well as round arches and blind arcades. This is mostly visible of the bottom half of the cathedral. The top half is decorated in a Gothic style which was added later. This is one of the first places where we saw any kind of buildings surrounded by large patches of grass but it was all quite beautiful. Along with the bell tower and the cathedral there is a baptistery and a Composanto Monumentale, which is a huge cemetery. The building that surrounds the "holy field" of the cemetery actually got mostly destroyed by a bomb in WWII but it was restored after the war by a group of volunteer art historians. From top to bottom: Leaning Tower, Cathedral of Pisa, Baptistery, Interior dome of the baptistery, Composanto Monumentale, city wall of Pisa.
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