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The leaning Greek church that steals the glory from the Tower of Pisa

EuroNews · · 135 words · By Ioannis Karagiorgas
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“With a 17-degree inclination, the church causes dizziness to anyone who manages to visit it.”
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“A church in the Greek village of Ropoto in Thessaly has become an attraction for tourists wishing to test their balance skills.”
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“This is because, due to subsidence, the church in question has been moved up the mountainside and has taken on a 17-degree slope, much steeper than, for example, that of the Tower of Pisa in Italy.”
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Wikipedia sources mention the Leaning Tower of Pisa's 4-degree tilt but provide no evidence for a 17-degree church slope or subsidence-related movement.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between 1589 and 1592, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (then professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa) is said to have dropped "unequal weights of the same material" from the Leaning T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: torre pendente di Pisa [ˈtorre penˈdɛnte di ˈpiːza, - ˈpiːsa]), or simply the Tower of Pisa (torre di Pisa), is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of Pisa C…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pisa ( PEE-zə; Italian: [ˈpiːza] or [ˈpiːsa]) is a city and comune (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city o…
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“For the last 14 years it has remained firmly in the same place. Due to subsidence in the village, the inhabitants were forced to leave in 2012.”
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Wikipedia sources about 2012 and films from that year contain no information about subsidence, villages, or churches remaining in place.
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