TIL Bologna was a city full of towers between the 12th and the 13th century
TIL Bologna was a city full of towers between the 12th and the 13th century
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Towers of Bologna
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Somewhere in an alternative dimension where they're not fictional, Dagwood is very confused by his sudden boner and Blondie's dinner guests are scandalized.
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At least we know why they're married now.
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So my Age of Empires build strategy was historically accurate
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Clearly the work of wizards.
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local superstition suggests that those who climb the Tower of Asinelli to the top will never finish their studies—bad luck for students, but good news for those who never tire of learning!
That does sound a lot like wizards
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I remember going up there with a friend when we were in study trip! oh wait...
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Steeplejacks, but pretty much the same thing
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Only drunker.
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You laugh, but people who believe the Tartarian Empire conspiracy theory point to this as one of the things lost after the "mud floods" lol.
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Obviously they were there to guard the cost-saving but insecurely designed trench leading to the small exhaust port.
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Seems like it would be a nightmare to take them down. Demolition back then must have been pretty methodical, taking it apart from the top to bottom.
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Much easier than that: just wait for a while and there won't be no tower anymore.
Either it falls down on its own or people come around to pick a few bricks and stones to build their own house.
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Is this an AI image? Stop that.
I say that because some towers are leaning weirdly, and some windows are very diffused. It’s too low res to be to an “artistic renderin,” and it’s just looks messy (as an image). I’ve seen better renders of the towers of Bologna.
If it’s not AI, I’ll across out the top bir. I’m sorry I’m just super skeptical nowadays.
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I'm sure it's an aerial image from that time
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Yea that's why it's low rez, the government pigeons were still in development
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It appears to be a wooden model. The image appeared in this blog post from 2022. At the end of the blog post, there is the wooden model. https://thepastabbatical.substack.com/p/the-towers-of-bologna
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Yeah linking to a Wikipedia article.But throwing in random AI art is frustrating. This picture is not on the Wikipedia page.
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The present past youtube channel has a video on this: https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g
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Thanks for sharing.
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Sounds like bologna to me.
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And they were never able to replicate that design for the meat rolls
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Isn't a way to cool the air coming in ?
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You're thinking of the structures that used underground water and winds to get evaporative cooling in Iran, the Windcatchers.
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Nope. Nice idea but these were status symbols most of all, and had a bit of defensive use.
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Visited Bologna about 8 years ago and visited these towers. There was a ton of supports at the base to keep it from falling down and even then it was still leaning pretty hard.
I met some Italians that doesn't care about it and think it's a waste of money.
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The only Italian town of towers I recognize is "San Gimignano". Shoutout to AC2.
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Did we have an Assassin's Creed about that?
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There's San Gimignano left of you want to get a real life feel of how it was. The town lies on an important route and local families showed off by showing their massive dongs of towers.
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Why? Protection? Cooling?
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"The reasons for the construction of so many towers are not clear. One hypothesis is that the richest families used them for offensive/defensive purposes during the period of the investiture Controversy"
My guess is it was about who has the longest one.
That was actually one of the reasons I learned. The rich families wanted to show how rich they were so they built towers. Then other rich families built their own, preferably bigger, to show that they had
a bigger penismore money.Are there any facts to back that up? I don't know. I heard it ~25 years ago and I don't remember the source. Though, I was in Bologna around that time so possibly from a tour or possibly from some drunk guy at a party.
It’s not about height, it’s about girth. You need a properly wide base and taper in order to
pleasehouse so many soldiers.Another hypothesis is that the city was taken over by wizards.
I choose to believe this one.
Hey, just because they use magic doesn't mean they're wizards. The biggest investiture tower, Urithiru, is actually associated with paladins
Nah, they just used them to show off. My tower is bigger than yours.
Yeah, somebody of influence built one, and the rest of the city that could afford to just followed.
The TikTok Stanley Cup craze of the 1100s.