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So my Age of Empires build strategy was historically accurate
Clearly the work of wizards.
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
Steeplejacks, but pretty much the same thing
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.
Obviously they were there to guard the cost-saving but insecurely designed trench leading to the small exhaust port.
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.
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.
Look around them. It would have to be like that today too. Too crowded.
Image isn't real
Are you suggesting that this isn't a real photograph of 12th century Bologna??
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bologna+towers&ia=images&iax=images
Here are real images. Tell me how you can safely demolish those with explosives while guaranteeing it's not going to topple over adjacent buildings.
I'm sure the construction of towers is different from chimney stacks, but Fred Dibnah did it with a bunch of firewood and some shovels.
Do you see a direction without buildings there so it can topple over safely? That's the main issue.
These towers are significantly different from a mud brick stack, too. The fact that they're square is important. They're also built with different materials: instead of a lattice of uniform bricks and mortar, they are built with two layers of masonry filled with assorted stones and mortar. Not the kind of building we're used to demolish, making it harder to predict.
demolish the adjacent buildings first
I don't know? But it's definitely easier than what the picture in the post suggests
Towers of Bologna

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.
The present past youtube channel has a video on this: https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g
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.
Isn't a way to cool the air coming in ?
The only Italian town of towers I recognize is "San Gimignano". Shoutout to AC2.
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.
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.
I'm sure it's an aerial image from that time
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
Pretty sure it's just a close-up photo of this model reconstruction from 1917. This article contains a higher-res version of the photo where you can see that it's just the roughly painted model houses making it look somewhat AI-like.
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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