#Italy: The Leaning Tower of Bologna & What is to be done? Giorgia Meloni, Lord of the Rings fan, to open a Tolkien exhibit in Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 October 2023
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#Italy: The Leaning Tower of Bologna & What is to be done? Giorgia Meloni, Lord of the Rings fan, to open a Tolkien exhibit in Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/10/25/this-leaning-tower-in-italy-has-been-closed-after-fears-of-collapse
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-to-host-major-tolkien-show-in-rome.html
1950 Bologna
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelorette. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's John Bachelorette. |
| 0:12.0 | To Italy, to Sarah Di Rapelano Siena. |
| 0:18.0 | Lorenzo Fiore joins from his olive grove. |
| 0:21.0 | He's doing the important work of bringing in the harvest. |
| 0:23.0 | At the same time, he's going to help me report on Italian matters |
| 0:27.0 | that are of great interest. |
| 0:28.0 | We go immediately to Bologna. |
| 0:30.0 | There is a leaning tower of Bologna. |
| 0:33.0 | There's an OK tower, too. |
| 0:35.0 | These are the twin towers of Bologna. |
| 0:37.0 | The Asinelli tower, much taller, is fine. |
| 0:40.0 | But the Garassenda tower is leaning, and it's been shut. |
| 0:44.0 | Why is it leaning, Lorenzo? Good evening to you. |
| 0:47.0 | Good evening, John. Good evening. |
| 0:49.0 | I told the radio listener from my olive grove. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, let me tell you that this is a problem very likely |
| 0:56.0 | because by, let's say, the intervention of the human |
| 1:01.0 | with their modernity, probably related to the vibration |
| 1:05.0 | induced by the heavy loads like buses and cars, |
| 1:09.0 | that are, of course, undermining the structure of one of the two towers. |
| 1:14.0 | These two towers are very famous when you mention Bologna, |
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