The towers of Bologna are shaking, what is happening and why are people worried
Fear for them symbolic towers of Bologna. Garisenda and Asinelli they were cordoned offthe motivation provided by the municipality’s technicians is not comforting: “Too many anomalous oscillationswe did it to listen to the movements”. The sensors that have been monitoring the oscillations since 2018 – we read in Repubblica – in recent weeks have begun to provide inconsistent data, which do not seem in line with the historical series of millimetric movements typical of medieval construction. Everyone mobilized: the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, with undersecretary Lucia Borgonzonithe superintendent of Fine Arts, the prefect and of course the mayor Matteo Lepore. Which closed that section of the centre, where buses and cars usually pass, to traffic leave the Garisenda tower alone, the one that presents the greatest fluctuations. Today the mayor will report to the city council.
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For years – continues Repubblica – the tower is under observationlike its “big sister”, the most famous tower of the Donkeys, which can usually be visited, but in recent days it has been closed to install a pendulum that helps us understand its movements well. Now it’s about compare the data which will be collected this week with the historical series. In fact, the University of Bologna has been collecting vibrations and sways since 2009. If at the end of the surveys they emerge “objective discontinuities”, we will need to understand how to intervene to take care of this precious historical asset. In these hours there are those who ask for pedestrianize the entire area and those who return to the alarms raised in the past, while the majority of people look with their noses upwards with the same apprehension that they usually reserve to an elderly relative bruised by age., the tower Garisenda it is 900 years old.
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