New Effort Launched To Save Tower Of Pisa

Hoping to salvage the leaning Tower of Pisa for another 80 years, engineers began work Saturday on an underground cable network designed to pull the structure back toward center.

The system could replace the 600-ton lead ingots that have served as counterweights on the 180-foot tower.

The new project involves connecting the tower to an underground platform with 50 steel cables, each with varying degrees of tension intended to stop the tilt and pull it slightly more upright. The system is expected to be completed late this year.