Towers of Bologna
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Another hypothesis is that the city was taken over by wizards.
I choose to believe this one.
Hey, just because they use magic doesn’t mean they’re wizards. The biggest investiture tower, Urithiru, is actually associated with paladins
Nah, they just used them to show off. My tower is bigger than yours.
Yeah, somebody of influence built one, and the rest of the city that could afford to just followed.
The TikTok Stanley Cup craze of the 1100s.
Keeping up with the Giovannis.
So my Age of Empires build strategy was historically accurate
So is fast castle.
Just look what the Normans did to stabilise England.
Clearly the work of wizards.
local superstition suggests that those who climb the Tower of Asinelli to the top will never finish their studies—bad luck for students, but good news for those who never tire of learning!
That does sound a lot like wizards
I remember going up there with a friend when we were in study trip! oh wait…
You laugh, but people who believe the Tartarian Empire conspiracy theory point to this as one of the things lost after the “mud floods” lol.
Obviously they were there to guard the cost-saving but insecurely designed trench leading to the small exhaust port.
Seems like it would be a nightmare to take them down. Demolition back then must have been pretty methodical, taking it apart from the top to bottom.
Much easier than that: just wait for a while and there won’t be no tower anymore.
Either it falls down on its own or people come around to pick a few bricks and stones to build their own house.
Look around them. It would have to be like that today too. Too crowded.
Image isn’t real
Are you suggesting that this isn’t a real photograph of 12th century Bologna??
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bologna+towers&ia=images&iax=images
Here are real images. Tell me how you can safely demolish those with explosives while guaranteeing it’s not going to topple over adjacent buildings.
demolish the adjacent buildings first
Use the tower and demolish them all in one fell swoop! Demolitionists hate this one trick!
one big explosion is less fun than a lot of little explosions and one big explosion
I don’t know? But it’s definitely easier than what the picture in the post suggests
Maybe just stick to the first sentence.
? Demolishing 2 detached towers is definitely easier than 50 built directly on buildings.
Towers like this still exist in places like San Gimignano.
Is this an AI image? Stop that.
I say that because some towers are leaning weirdly, and some windows are very diffused. It’s too low res to be to an “artistic renderin,” and it’s just looks messy (as an image). I’ve seen better renders of the towers of Bologna.
If it’s not AI, I’ll across out the top bir. I’m sorry I’m just super skeptical nowadays.
I’m sure it’s an aerial image from that time
Yea that’s why it’s low rez, the government pigeons were still in development
It appears to be a wooden model. The image appeared in this blog post from 2022. At the end of the blog post, there is the wooden model. https://thepastabbatical.substack.com/p/the-towers-of-bologna
Yeah linking to a Wikipedia article.But throwing in random AI art is frustrating. This picture is not on the Wikipedia page.
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Sounds like bologna to me.
The present past youtube channel has a video on this: https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g
Thanks for sharing.
And they were never able to replicate that design for the meat rolls
Visited Bologna about 8 years ago and visited these towers. There was a ton of supports at the base to keep it from falling down and even then it was still leaning pretty hard.
I met some Italians that doesn’t care about it and think it’s a waste of money.
Isn’t a way to cool the air coming in ?
You’re thinking of the structures that used underground water and winds to get evaporative cooling in Iran, the Windcatchers.
Did we have an Assassin’s Creed about that?
The only Italian town of towers I recognize is “San Gimignano”. Shoutout to AC2.
Why? Protection? Cooling?
