Pisa

This was one of our favorite stops! The icon of Italy and so worth seeing. The kids (and us too) just loved it. Unfortunately we couldn't go up to the top, you have to be 8...I would of loved to climb the stairs. Oh well!
The plaza has 3 main buildings, the leaning tower, Piazza del Duomo and the Baptistery. Each one is beautiful and unique. I was very impressed on how much the tower really does lean. I guess during construction they tried fixing it, but made it worse. It was then tried to fix several years later, but they still couldn't straighten it out. Just since the mid 1990's they they finally stabilized it enough, that it was reopened for tourist to climb.

Along the River at nightThe Baptistery

The Duomo

Our attempt at "holding up the tower" we are not very good and the kids didn't have the patience for us to take a million pictures.