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A 'beautiful' old house outside of Paonia, CA. At one time this must have been an amazing place with quite a view. Today....it is just memories.....

The Tower of Pisa and Duomo of the Piazza dei Miracoli. The match to the image from yesterday of the stairs inside the tower.....I'm sure there are 1000s of images of the tower on Flickr, so I add my simple shot....for the record.

It is an amazing place, in fact the whole plaza area and town, worth visiting even if the tower was not there. Feel the same about this place as I do Paris, the towers add to the place but there is so much more than just the iconic structures.

Until I visited the tower, I didn't realize it has some nice carvings on the outside....loved this one of ships.

Each year, tourists like me, do their part and help hold the tower up for a few minutes. In doing so, it has limited the lean and helped to keep the tower almost upright, otherwise it would have fallen years ago.

The worn marble steps of the Tower of Pisa....just wonder how many feet have climbed those stairs......this part of the staircase is near the bottom with little lean - as you get higher the worn part is not centered but moves either out from the wall or toward the wall depending on which part of the 'lean' you are on.....