Compléter Tower of PisaVersion en ligne Vocabulary Practice par Mike Bellis 1 in installed soil result musical construction vertical leaning attempts complete years bell storeys years identity city lean floor stable began easy Leaning fighting completed height foundation steps The famous Tower of Pisa is the tower of the cathedral in the of Pisa , in Italy . Its is 55 . 8m , it has 8 and there are 294 to the top . Construction in 1173 and it took 200 years to . The architect's is still unknown , but we do know that he designed the tower to be . After the third was built , the tower started to , mainly because its was shallow ? only 3 metres ? and in weak soil . The Pisans stopped twice ? for almost 100 years each time ? because they were busy battles with other Italian cities ! In 1372 , the tower was and seven bells were , one for each note of the scale . Over the years , there have been many to straighten it , or halt the . This was not as as it seemed . Some of those attempts had exactly the opposite : the tower sank even further into the ! The latest attempt was completed 2001 and took ten . The tower has been declared for at least another 300 .