You're then given a 30 minute time slot on your chosen date (if available).
The standard price for visiting the tower is €18 per person but you'll also find lots of websites offering pre-booking/skip the line tickets where you book your time-slot in advance. Opening times for the tower depend on the month or even the date of your visit with a fairly complicated timetable which you can find further down this page. When it was added to complete the tower in the second half of the 14th century, it was built at a contrary angle to the structure below, making it straighter at the top and giving it an odd-looking, bent appearance at the top, perhaps just as odd as the very fact that it leans at all.
One curiosity to keep an eye out for is the Bell Chamber, the top floor of the tower. The large majority of visitors to the Piazza content themselves with taking photos, selfies and the typical pose where you look like you're the one supporting the tower, if taken at the correct angle. With some wonderful views of the city from the bell-tower at the top your efforts are well-rewarded if you make the climb but the narrow staircase and 5 degree lean can cause issues for vertigo and claustrophobia sufferers. Many people just opt to climb the tower itself with its 251 steps reaching a height of 60 metres, reduced to just under 56 metres on its lowest side. The square is also home to the Camposanto Monumentale and the Museo delle Sinopie meaning you can spend a whole day exploring just the sights of the square if you wish to. With its location in the beautiful Piazza dei Miracoli (Miracle Square), the tower is just one of several landmark buildings including Pisa's Cathedral and its Baptistery. Eleven years of work followed to make sure the tower was safe and had a future, eventually re-opening in 2001. Throughout the centuries, architects and engineers have studied the issues surrounding the tower's lean and when in 1990 it was discovered that the angle of the lean was becoming dangerous, the tower was closed. It was only after the over-effective corrective measures were taken to straighten it, that the tower started to lean southwards as it still does today.
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