List of leaning towers

Leaning towers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, the most recognized leaning tower

The Olympic Stadium in Montreal, with the tallest deliberately leaning tower

A 2007 Guinness World Record plaque recognizing the Leaning Tower of Suurhusen as having the highest tilt

Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi is the world’s furthest man-made leaning tower

This is a list of leaning towers. A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally, or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction or to subsequent external influence) does not stand perpendicular to the ground. The most famous example is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

Asia

China

• The Huqiu Tower in Suzhou (Jiangsu)
• The Huzhu Pagoda of Tianma Mountain near Shanghai
• Qianwei's Leaning Tower in Suizhong County (Liaoning)
• The deliberately tilted Iron Tower of Yuquan Temple (Hubei)
• The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda of Xi'an

Hong Kong

• The pair of towers of Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Corridor

Abu Dhabi, UAE

• The Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi – “World’s furthest leaning man-made tower.” (2010)

Malaysia

• A clock and water tower in the Teluk Intan town in Perak

Philippines

• Bombon, Camarines Sur Parish Church Bell Tower

India

• The Leaning Temple of Huma, Sambalpur, India
• Golden Pillar in Ettumanur temple

Pacific

Australia

• The Leaning Tower of Gingin at the Gravity Discovery Centre

New Zealand

• The Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch (demolished)
• The Leaning Tower of Wanaka in Puzzling World

Europe

Belgium

• The Belfry of Bruges

Czech Republic

• The tower of the Nanebevzetí Panny Marie church in Ústí nad Labem

Denmark

• Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen

France

• La tour penchée, Oye-Plage, Pas-de-Calais

Germany

Der Neue Zollhof at Media Harbor, Düsseldorf, designed by Frank Gehry

The Leaning Tower of Suurhusen

• The Metzgerturm^[1] in Ulm
• The Neuer Zollhof in Düsseldorf
• The Reichenturm in Bautzen
• The Leaning Tower of Suurhusen (Schiefer Turm von Suurhusen) (according to Guinness World Records the most tilted tower in the world)
• The Leaning Tower of Dausenau (Schiefer Turm von Dausenau) (also contending for the "most leaning tower in the world")
• The 14th-century bell tower of the Church of Our Dear Lady in Bad Frankenhausen

Hungary

• Szécsény Firewatch Tower, leaning 3 degrees

Ireland

• The Round Tower of Kilmacduagh Monastery in Gort, County Galway

Italy

• The Campanile of Cathedral of Pisa (known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa), Pisa
• The Campanile of San Nicola, Pisa
• The Campanile of San Michele degli Scalzi, Pisa
• The Asinelli and Garisenda towers in Bologna
• The Campanile of San Martino church on the island of Burano, Venice
• The Campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice
• The Campanile of Santo Stefano in Venice
• Torre delle Milizie, Rome
• St Mark's Campanile
• The Campanile of Duomo di Caorle
• The Campanile of Duomo di Portogruaro

Netherlands

• The tower of the St. Walfriduskerk in Bedum
• The tower of the Oude Kerk in Delft
• The tower of the Central Church of Dordrecht
• The Oldehove in Leeuwarden
• The Martinitoren in Groningen
• The tower of the Catharinakerk in Acquoy
• The tower of the Domkerk in De Lier
• The tower of the church in Loenen aan de Vecht

Poland

• The Krzywa Wieża (Leaning Tower) in Toruń
• The Krzywa Wieża (Leaning Tower) in Ząbkowice Śląskie
• The Baszta Sowia (Owl's Tower) in Pyrzyce

Romania

• The St. Margaret Evangelic church Tower in Medias
• The church tower of the Evangelic Church in Ruși-Slimnic

Russia

• The Leaning Tower of Nevyansk
• The Söyembikä Tower in Kazan
• Sobornaya Belltower in Solikamsk

Serbia

• Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Zvezdara municipality, Belgrade

Spain

• The Gate of Europe in Madrid, the first inclined skyscrapers in the world
• Mudéjar Tower of San Pedro del los Francos, Catalayud, Aragon
• The demolished Leaning Tower of Zaragoza, was, while it existed, the most famous Spanish leaning tower.

United Kingdom

• The southeast tower of Caerphilly Castle, Wales
• The Albert Memorial Clock in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• The great tower of Bridgnorth Castle, in the town of Bridgnorth, Shropshire
• The tower of Temple Church in Bristol, England
• The Greyfriars Tower - the remains of a Franciscan monastery in King's Lynn, England
• The spire of the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield^[2]
• The tower of St Martin's Church at Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, Wales.
• The tower and spire of St Laurence's Church, Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England
• Bateman's Tower in Brightlingsea, Essex, England.
• Elizabeth Tower, London^[3]
• 2 Adelaide St (multi-purpose building with Bank of Ireland as anchor tenant.), Belfast, Northern Ireland.

North America

Canada

• The Olympic Stadium Tower, Montréal, Québec
• The Saint-Léonard Tower (and associated public market), Saint-Léonard, Québec^[4] (demolished)

Leaning Tower of Niles, a modern replica of the one at Pisa

United States

• The Leaning Tower of Niles, a replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Niles, Illinois
• The Veer Towers at CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada
• The "Leaning Tower of Patchogue," a nickname given to the former PD Tower at the railroad station in Patchogue, New York. Demolished in 2006.
• Leaning Tower, Yosemite, a geological feature; north-facing mountainside immediately west of Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California^[5]
• The Leaning Water Tower, in Groom, Texas.
• Sharps Island Light, 3 miles off the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay has been leaning 15° since it was damaged by an ice floe in 1977.
• The Millennium Tower in San Francisco. An examination in 2016 showed the building had sunk 16 inches with a two inch tilt towards the north west.

See also

• Inclined tower

References

1. Metzgerturm
2. http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/chesterfield-crooked-spire-c1747.html
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15243118
4. Columbani Architecte
5. National Park Service, Yosemite Map

External links

• Leaning Towers of China