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Bologna (Italy) – Asinelli tower – Built in year 1109, 498 steps, it's a leaning tower. In 1791 the tower was the protagonist of a famous scientific experiment conducted by physicist Giovanni Battista Guglielmini to prove the rotation of the earth. By dropping a grave from the tower noticed that instead of falling along the vertical line it moved to 17 mm.

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Taken on October 6, 2012