Wednesday,
January 31, 2007
St Mark's
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January 31 2007
The 99-metre campanile which dominates
"When you have things like this, we can't know exactly what's going to
happen," said Ettore Via,
who as curator of St Marks is in charge of conservation of the basilica and its
bell tower whose history goes back to the 12th century.
The bell tower was built after the existing 16th century structure collapsed in
1902. But the new tower was found to contain a fissure, discovered in 1939,
which is very slowly spreading.
The work will involve wrapping a titanium belt around the tower's foundations,
between one metre and three metres
below the ground, at a cost of six million euros.
The pro ject will start within the next six months
and take a year and a half to finish.
The tower is not the only architectural treasure in
The entire city - built on a lagoon and crisscrossed by canals - suffers from
periodic flooding. The government has just begun a multi-billion-euro floodgate project aimed at stopping rising sea levels
destroying the town.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, in
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