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Piazza dei Miracoli, Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, Province of Pisa, Italy

This is all just wikipedia, I'm not out reading architecture books.

Built in three stages over 199 years

Foundation is only 3 metres (approx 9 feet) deep so that's a problem

Begun in 1173, the second floor was being built in 1178 and that's when she just starts to pitch over

OK so now we're having some wars and we're too busy to work on this two storey weak foundation building, it's just sitting there at an angle

Which gives the soil time to settle down and I guess we're just at this angle now, but at least not toppling

Until 1233, 55 years later, they decided to start building again

I don't know what to tell you. I probably would have suggested starting over but I'm not a Pisan tower patron in the 13th century

What are you going to do, in 1266, when you're working on this slopey monster?

Floors taller on one side than the other to compensate

So we're all in on this now - the tower is both leaning AND has a curve

Also architectural fashions have changed so the poor bastard who does the very tippy top in 1372 (the other floors were complete in 1319, guess they all went out for a very long smoko before starting the bell tower) has to reconcile its gothic style with the romanesque style of the rest of the building

There have been numerous attempts to stop the building from falling over, some made it worse

And yet, it has withstood 4 strong earthquakes in its lifetime, just bouncing in place on the soft soil if I am reading that right

This building just fascinates me because can you imagine being in the planning meetings in 1233 where they're like.... ahhh yeah she leans but let's just keep going, eh?

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

the trouble is, you think you have time.