Leaning Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa)

My husband and I just got married and took our honeymoon trip to florence after we won $50,000 playing the lottery. Our trip was amazing! We got to visit an amazing country and learn about their amazing history. We got to experince life in another country and see their amazing architecture that's so much different from ours here in America. In …

We left the comfort of our quiet little mountain retreat and headed south down the coast. Our destination was ultimately Tuscany, but we thought we would see a few spots along the way.
Since Pisa was on our way to Tuscany, we decided we should make the detour off the highway and see this famed leaning tower. If for no other reason than to say …

Travelling to Pisa takes you from the Ligurian region into Tuscany. We took the train for a reasonable 8.50 euro each with one station change.. The total journey was about 1.20 hrs passing through lots of small towns including Carrara which is where they carve the marble out of the hills. Leonardo da Vinci got his raw materials from here. We saw …

On the third day of the Cruise we arrived at our first stop, Livorno in Italy, close to Pisa.

Deciding that we'd avoid the guided tours and instead use local transportation to visit Pisa for a few hours, we took a buss to Livorno train station and purchased a return ticket to Pisa. The whole trip was quite short and only getting out …

My room in the B&B has its own little fresco on il soffitto (the ceiling). So I wake each morning to my own private Museo di Firenze and the aroma of fresh brewed caffe. The breakfast room is just feet from my bedroom door, but all the guests are very quiet in the morning. They are all young English couples here on holiday and very polite. I …

It has been 26 years since I was in Italy and Pisa. The tower still stands on that precarious looking lean. Only difference it seems is all the tourists doing the'Holding up the tower' photo.

It's still spectacular but seems whiter than I remember. Perhaps being summer has changed the light.

In the spirit of saving money, we decided to take an overnight train from Florence to Naples/Amalfi. We didn’t have to pay for a hostel and the train was cheaper. We had a 2 hour “layover” in Pisa so we decided to take a trip to the famous leaning tower. There isn’t much to do in Pisa, besides the tower itself, so two …

We have docked in Livorno, Italy :) today is our Pisa tour, 1.30pm-5.45pm, then the ship leaves for Rome at 6.30pm :) we've been informed that we MUST be on the ship by exactly 6.30, not 6.35, otherwise the ship will leave without us, which is slightly nerve wracking! Had room service breakfast at 8am, now we've got 5 hours to do what we want …

So today we left Rome and headed north to Tuscany. We left the hotel at 7.30am with Pisa being our first destination. Along the way we stopped at a nice little restaurant for morning tea and then lunch was at an Autogrill and we had our first taste of Chianti.

When we arrived in Pisa, the bus parked quite a distance from the Tower and we …

We decided, rather than do the tour bus thing and spend an hour or two in Pisa, to spend the night there. And I am so glad that we did. Our hotel was gorgeous and easily the nicest we stayed in whilst in Italy and whilst there isn't a huge amount to do during the day because it is a small Uni town it is very vibrant at night and is you move away …

... how the tower is tilting at all when you consider how many tourists, on a daily basis, do that silly "look!, I'm holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa" pose for pictures. Some folks even help push it up with their feet, and some in tandem. · Nice, in ...

... and i'd have to agree... Definatly does not look real at all. Its kinda hard believing your actually standing here infront of the.... leaning tower of pisa! Again, something i've always known about my entire life, yet here i am looking at it just as i ...

... Baptistry a month later in Volterra, but we'll get to that (probably in April). We managed to take the obligatory obscene tower photos, which we will spare everyone. Except Rug, who actually requested them before we went, and Trish, who just likes ...

... to watch sunset over the golden Arno river and the Ponte Vecchio. Weve also done day trips out to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which astounded me with is size and the beauty of the Field of Miracles, and into the Florentine countryside for a walk ...

Unfortunately the Roman Discotheque strikes again and there are no surviving photos of me at the leaning Tower of Pisa that are fit to be shown. I can confirm it though, the tower does ...

... feel like it" attitude. These days, they are much more vigilant about it.  Regardless, we spent the day in Pisa. The tower area has some lovely grassed areas which were covered in people taking the classic silly tourist photos of being crushed by ...

... Tuscan sun, be sure to visit the statue of David, do some people watching in Sienna's Camp Square and climb the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Visit Michelangelo’s Statue of David The Accademia gallery is a short walk from the Uffizi Gallery. This is ...

... city is actually the home of several of Italy's most prestigious universities, but we were there for one thing only: the leaning tower of Pisa. The leaning tower is part of a church complex, made up of a cathedral and a baptistery. I wandered around the ...

... tower, with their hands held up at an angle to look as though they were holding up the falling tower -- the classic Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa shot!  And our kids were no exception.  They went through many poses at many different ...

... we went through Pisa and stayed in the city for a couple of hours. There really isn't a whole lot to see in Pisa other then the Leaning Tower, of course. So we payed 3 euro to have our backpacks stored at the station and we went in search for the Tower. ...