Pisa
I might aswell mention that this section is not actually about Pisa but more about
the leaning tower , coz beleive it or not I
anything on the internet about the town it
-self. But maybe this will be as good!
Phases of construction
Commencement of works on 9 August of the year 1173.
Establishment of the "Opera Campanilis petrarum Sancte Marie" (Stone Works of the bell tower of Saint Mary).
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Probable interruption at the height of the 4th order.
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The presence of a bell-ringer at the Tower is documented - a sign that the building can hold at least one bell, partially fulfilling the purpose for which it was intended.
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Building work, probably taken up again in the first decades of the century, proceeds. A workshop in which marble for the Tower is worked is documented.
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Oath of the worker Benato Bottici: in the ceremony of investiture he pledges to be "solicitous and attentive in the building of the bell tower of the church, according to the means of the Opera".
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Giovanni di Simone, whose presence was documented at the Opera del Duomo from 1260 and, from 1267 as master builder, intervenes in the construction of the Tower. Building proceeds up to the seventh order, where a correction of the axial inclination of the building is made, which is no longer rectilinear, having assumed a concave form.
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Further suspension of building work.
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Giovanni Pisano measures the inclination of the Tower with a plumb line.
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After almost a century of inactivity, Tommaso Pisano
completes the construction, erecting the belfry and
making the last important geometric correction of the
structure.
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