My friend Hans and I went to Pisa towards the end of our semester abroad in Florence. Pisa wasn't too far away, so we hopped on a train one afternoon. When we arrived at the station in Pisa, we had to walk through the entire town to reach the Piazza del Duomo, in which the Leaning Tower stands. The town was quite a bit bigger than I realized, and quite pretty (but what Italian town isn't?). The entire walk was pretty quiet - the streets seemed deserted - but once we arrived at the Piazza, there were people everywhere!
My Italian friends had mentioned that when they were younger, it had been possible to climb the tower, but when we visited, this unfortunately wasn't the case. The tower had been leaning a bit too much, I suppose, so it was reinforced with cables and closed to the public. (The tower actually reopened to the public in December of that year, so we just missed being able to climb it.)
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