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• Leaning tower in Bologna to be saved as city announces €4m repair project

  02-12-2023 16:18
  
  Work to be carried out on Garisenda tower in new year after area around it was cordoned off due to collapse fearsOfficials have announced plans to repair one of two 12th-century towers in the Italian city of Bologna after the area around it had to secured last month over fears its leaning could lead to collapse.The city said the €4.3m (£3.7m) project to shore up the Garisenda tower – one of the Two Towers that look out over central Bologna, providing inspiration over the centuri
  
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• We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining? | Rowan Moore

  02-12-2023 16:00
  
  You don’t go to this Bonaparte biopic for a history lesson or authentic settings – but shouldn’t it at least be entertaining?To the laments of military historians about the accuracy of Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon, one could add some about the architecture. Christopher Wren’s Royal Naval College in Greenwich gets digitally spliced with classical architecture from France and Malta, so they all look as if they are in the same place, while Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshir
  
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