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The square surrounding Bologna’s medieval “leaning tower” is to be closed off for “a few years” amid concerns that the 12th-century structure is tilting a little too precariously.

The Italian city’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, said the closure of Piazza di Porta Ravegnana was necessary in order to “save” the Garisenda tower.

“I am afraid to think about losing something that is part of the city’s soul,” Carlo Lucarelli, an author and screenwriter, told Corriere della Sera.

Giorgio Diritti, an actor and film director, said: “I’m worried from many perspectives, especially the fact that this news has come as a surprise.

The Garisenda and Asinelli towers are named after the rival families who built them, believed to be as a way to compete over their power and wealth, and are located at what was the entrance to the city.

The tower was cited several times in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and Le Rime, and Dickens wrote about it in his Pictures from Italy.

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