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... The tower is really a story of poor zoning. It was started in 1174 and started leaning almost immediately as it is basically sitting on a sandy lot. It was built over a few centuries and in the final stages they actually tried to compensate for the lean by making the one side taller than the other, but this only aggravated the situation by adding weight to the leaning side.

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... The tower is really a story of poor zoning. It was started in 1174 and started leaning almost immediately as it is basically sitting on a sandy lot. It was built over a few centuries and in the final stages they actually tried to compensate for the lean by making the one side taller than the other, but this only aggravated the situation by adding weight to the leaning side.

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