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This is a '''list of leaning towers'''. A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction, or subsequent external influence such as unstable ground), does not stand perpendicular to the ground. The most famous example is the Leaning Tower in Pisa, Italy.
According to economics reporter, Eric Lach, as he was reporting on the 1 Seaport building in 2025, "leaning towers are one of those problems . . . that modern societies think they've solved, or surpassed, despite all the evidence to the contrary".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Lach|first=Eric|title=The New Yorker Daily|magazine=The New Yorker|date=February 5, 2025}} (daily newsletter)</ref>
==Asia== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = 西安大雁塔 - panoramio (2).jpg | caption1 = Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, Xi'an, China | image2 = Huzhuta.JPG | caption2 = Huzhu Pagoda, Tianma Mtn, China }}
===China=== * The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda of Xi'an * The Huzhu Pagoda of Tianma Mountain near Shanghai * The Huqiu Tower in Suzhou, Jiangsu * The deliberately tilted Iron Tower of Yuquan Temple, Hubei * Qianwei's Leaning Tower in Suizhong County, Liaoning * Baoguang Temple's pagoda: only the top levels are tilted
====Hong Kong==== * The pair of towers of Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Corridor
===India=== * Golden Pillar in Ettumanur temple * The Leaning Temple of Huma, Sambalpur * Ratneshwar Mahadev temple, Varanasi {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Submerged and tilted Matri-rin Temple, Varanasi 01.jpg | caption1 = Ratneshwar Mahadev temple, Varanasi, India | image2 = | caption2 = The Leaning Temple of Huma, Sambalpur, India }}
===Iraq=== * The 12th century Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, destroyed in 2017, reconstructed in 2025 thumb|220px|The 12th century Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq in 1932
===Malaysia=== * The Leaning Tower of Teluk Intan, a water/clock tower located in Teluk Intan, Hilir Perak District, Perak, Malaysia. {{multiple image | align = center | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = | caption1 = Clock/water tower, Teluk, Perak, Malaysia }}
===Philippines=== * Bombon Parish Church Bell Tower
===Sri Lanka=== * Altair, twin skyscraper complex in Colombo {{multiple image | align = center | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Altair Colombo.jpg | caption1 = The Altair twin skyscrapers, Sri Lanka }}
===UAE=== * Capital Gate, skyscraper in Abu Dhabi {{multiple image | align = center | total_width = 160 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Boot - panoramio (1).jpg | caption1 = Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi, UAE }} {{-}}
==Europe== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Brugge (2406791009).jpg | caption1 = Belfry of Bruges, Belgium | image2 = Ústí nad Labem, děkanský kostel Panny Marie a sv. Vojtěcha.JPG|thumb|kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie | caption2 = Panny Marie Church Tower, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic }}
===Belgium=== * The Belfry of Bruges * The tower of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Schelle * The tower of the abbey church in Ninove
===Czech Republic=== * The tower of the Nanebevzetí Panny Marie church in Ústí nad Labem * Church of Saint Peter of Alcantara in Karviná {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Kiipsaare majakas, 2006-07-27.jpg | caption1 = Kiipsaare Lighthouse, Saaremaa, Estonia | image2 = La tour penchée - Oye-Plage - Pas-de-Calais.jpg | caption2 = ''La tour penchée'', Oye-Plage, Pas-de-Calais, France }}
===Estonia=== * Karski Church {{in lang|et}} in Karksi-Nuia * Kiipsaare Lighthouse in Saaremaa
===France=== * ''La tour penchée'', Oye-Plage, Pas-de-Calais
===Germany=== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 130 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = 20210415 Gemeindeturm.jpg | caption1 = Tower of Gau-Weinheim, Germany }} {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = 08 Suurhuser Kirche (bei Emden, Ostfriesland).jpg | caption1 = Tower of Suurhusen, Germany | image2 = Schiefer Turm - panoramio.jpg | caption2 = Oberkirche, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany }} * Oberkirche in Bad Frankenhausen * The ''Metzgerturm''<ref>{{cite web | title=Metzgerturm|language=de | website=Kreisbildstelle Illertissen| url=http://www.kreisbildstelle-illertissen.de/metz.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020401043224/http://www.kreisbildstelle-illertissen.de/metz.htm | archive-date=1 April 2002 | url-status=dead | ref={{sfnref | kreisbildstelle-illertissen.de | 2002}}}}</ref> in Ulm * The ''Neuer Zollhof'' in Düsseldorf * The ''Reichenturm'' in Bautzen * Bell tower of {{ill|Midlum (Rheiderland)|de}} * The Leaning Tower of Gau-Weinheim (lean 5.4277° on 15 July 2022,<ref>{{cite web| last=Gottschlich | first=Erwin | title=Der Schiefer Turm von Gau-Weinheim| website=Gau-Weinheim.de| url=https://www.gau-weinheim.de/geschichte/gemeindeturm.html|language=de | access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref> greater than Suurhusen) * The Leaning Tower of Suurhusen, ''Schiefer Turm von Suurhusen''. at an angle which was according to Guinness World Records in 2007 the greatest for an unintentionally tilted tower<ref name=guinness>{{cite web | title=Farthest leaning church tower | website=Guinness World Records | date=17 January 2007 | url=https://guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/farthest-leaning-tower}}</ref> * The Leaning Tower of Dausenau (''Schiefer Turm von Dausenau'') (slightly further leaning than the Tower of Suurhusen, disqualified by Guinness World Records for being a ruin instead of a tower) * The 14th-century bell tower of the Church of Our Dear Lady in Bad Frankenhausen * The 13th-century tower in Kitzingen is distinctive for its crooked roof due to top floor being offset. This offset, due to town legend, was due to wine being used instead of water for the top floor during a serious drought.
===Hungary=== * Szécsény Firewatch Tower, leaning 3 degrees
===Ireland=== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Kilmacduagh round tower - geograph.org.uk - 65606.jpg | caption1 = Round Tower of Kilmacduagh, Ireland }} * The Round Tower of Kilmacduagh Monastery in Gort, County Galway * Bastioned fort, Passage East, County Waterford.
===Italy=== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Le Torri di BO.jpg | caption1 = The Two Towers, Bologna, Italy | image2 = Mercati di traiano, torre delle milizie.JPG | caption2 = Torre delle Milizie, Rome, Italy }} * The {{ill|campanile of Duomo di Caorle|it|campanile del Duomo di Caorle}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il Duomo e il campanile |website=Caorle Portale Turistico |access-date=11 September 2022 |url= https://www.caorle.eu/it/scopri/le-10-attrazioni-top-di-caorle/il-duomo-e-il-campanile |language=it }}</ref> * Bellisario's Tower (Cerreto D'Esi, Ancona) * The campanile (bell tower) of the Cathedral of Pisa (known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa), Pisa * The campanile of Duomo di Portogruaro<ref>{{cite journal | author=Zonta, Daniele | author2=Pozzi, Matteo | title=The remarkable story of Portogruaro Civic Tower's probabilistic health monitoring|date=December 2015 | journal=Structural Monitoring and Maintenance| volume=2 | issue=4 | doi=10.12989/SMM.2015.2.4.301|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291810443| pages=301–318}}</ref> * The campanile of San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice * The campanile of San Martino church on the island of Burano, Venice * The campanile of San Michele, Massino Visconti * The campanile of the church of San Matteo in Molinella * The campanile of San Michele degli Scalzi, Pisa * The campanile of San Nicola, Pisa * The Arengo tower of Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna * The campanile of Santo Stefano in Venice * Torre delle Milizie, Rome * The Two Towers (Asinelli and Garisenda towers in Bologna) * The San Benedetto church and bell tower, Ferrera<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net./|title=ResearchGate {{!}} Find and share research|website=ResearchGate|access-date=2 December 2023}}{{shallow reference inline|date=November 2025}}</ref> * The campanile of the parish church in Barbian, South Tyrol<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.klausen.it/en/enjoyment-region/barbian/sights/leaning-tower-of-barbian.html | title=The leaning tower of Barbian }}</ref>
===Netherlands=== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Oude Kerk Delft 2.jpg | caption1 = Oude Kerk, Delft, Netherlands }} * The tower of the St. Walfriduskerk in Bedum * The tower of the Oude Kerk in Delft * The tower of the Grote Kerk of Dordrecht * The Oldehove in Leeuwarden * The tower in Miedum * The Martinitoren in Groningen * The tower of the Catharinakerk in Acquoy * The tower of the Domkerk in De Lier * The tower of the church in Loenen aan de Vecht * The tower of Sint-Jan de Doper church in Waalwijk
{{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Саат кулата во Прилеп 2.JPG | caption1 = Clock Tower, Prilep, Northern Macedonia | image2 = Krzywa wieża.jpg | caption2 = The Krzywa Wieża, Toruń, Poland }}
===North Macedonia=== * Clock Tower in Prilep in North Macedonia
===Poland=== * The Krzywa Wieża (Leaning Tower) in Toruń * The Krzywa Wieża (Leaning Tower) in Ząbkowice Śląskie * The Baszta Sowia (Owl's Tower) in Pyrzyce
===Romania=== * The St. Margaret Evangelic church Tower in Mediaș * The church tower of the Evangelic Church in Ruși-Slimnic
{{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Башня Сююмбике1.jpg | caption1 = Söyembikä Tower, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia | image2 = Banska Bystrica - Marian Column, Clock Tower.jpg | caption2 = The Clock Tower on SNP Square, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia }}
===Russia=== * The Demidov Tower in Nevyansk * The Sobornaya Belltower in Solikamsk * The Söyembikä Tower in Kazan * Belltower of the Church of the Theotokos of Tikhvin in Kungur * Belltower of the Edoma Pogost near Arkhangelsk * Belltower of the Church of All Saints in Moscow
===Serbia=== * Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Zvezdara municipality, Belgrade
===Slovakia=== * The tower of the Church of Saint Martin in Vrbové in Slovakia is known as the "Slovak Pisa".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.milujemcestovanie.sk/vrbove/|title=Vrbové - slovenská Pisa a rodisko kráľa Madagaskaru|date=February 14, 2016}}</ref> * The Church of Saint George in Spišská Sobota<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cas.sk/spravy/domace-spravy/sikmu-vezu-maju-aj-v-poprade-prezrela-si-ju-i-kralovna-alzbeta-ii|title=Šikmú vežu majú aj v Poprade! Prezrela si ju i kráľovná Alžbeta II.|date=August 2, 2012|website=Nový Čas}}</ref> * The Clock Tower on SNP Square in Banská Bystrica
{{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Obelisco calatrava.jpg | caption1 = Gate of Europe, Madrid, Spain | image2 = Calatayud - San Pedro de los Francos.jpg | caption2 = Mudéjar Tower, San Pedro del los Francos, Catalayud, Aragon, Spain }}
===Spain=== * Mudéjar Tower of San Pedro del los Francos, Catalayud, Aragon * The demolished Leaning Tower of Zaragoza, was, while it existed, the most famous Spanish leaning tower. Demolished in 1892.<ref>Pictures of the tower: https://www.alamy.de/fotos-bilder/der-schiefe-turm-von-zaragoza.html?sortBy=relevant, April 29, 2025</ref> * Mudéjar Clock Tower of Ateca, Aragon * Gate of Europe, two mutually inclined skyscrapers in Madrid * The leaning bell tower of the Church of Our Lady of Assumption in Bujalance, Andalusia
===Switzerland=== * The Leaning Tower of St. Moritz, remaining bell tower of St. Mauritius Church (16th century) that was demolished in 1893.
{{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 260 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Kievo-Pecherska Lavra Belltower.jpg | caption1 = Belltower of Great Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine | image2 = Twenty to eight in the clock tower of the Albert Memorial.jpg | caption2 = Albert Clock, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK }}
===Ukraine=== * Belltower of Great Lavra in Kyiv * Belltower of Saint Lawrence's Church in Zhovkva
===United Kingdom=== * 2 Adelaide St (multi-purpose building with Bank of Ireland as anchor tenant), Belfast, Northern Ireland * The Albert Memorial Clock in Belfast, Northern Ireland * Bateman's Tower in Brightlingsea, Essex, England * The great tower of Bridgnorth Castle, in the town of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England * The southeast tower of Caerphilly Castle, Wales * The spire of the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/chesterfield-crooked-spire-c1747.html |title=Chesterfield Crooked Spire|date=5 October 2020|website= Peak District Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416011143/http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/chesterfield-crooked-spire-c1747.html |archive-date=2016-04-16 |url-status=live}}</ref> * The Greyfriars Tower in King's Lynn * The tower of St Clement's Church in Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, England
==North America== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Le Stade Olympique. - panoramio.jpg | caption1 = The Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada | image2 = Faro inclinado Pto.Morelos.jpg | caption2 = Puerto Morelos Lighthouse, Riviera Maya, Mexico }}
===Canada=== * The Olympic Stadium Tower, the tallest deliberately leaning tower, Montréal, Québec * The Saint-Léonard Tower (and associated public market), Saint-Léonard, Québec<ref>[http://colombaniarchitecte.free.fr/web/photos/commercial/projet_02.htm Columbani Architecte] (in French)</ref> (demolished)
===Mexico=== * Puerto Morelos Lighthouse of 1946 on Riviera Maya in the state of Quintana Roo, leaning since 1967
===United States=== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Sharps_Island_Light_2009.jpg | caption1 = Sharps Light, Chesapeake Bay | image2 = Groom, Texas 03.jpg | caption2 = Leaning Tower of Britten, Groom, Texas }} * The Leaning Tower of Niles, in Niles, Illinois; a replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa * The "Leaning Tower of Patchogue", a nickname given to the former PD Tower at the LIRR station in Patchogue, New York; it was demolished in 2006 * The Leaning Tower of Britten, in Groom, Texas * The Leaning Tower of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, a now demolished core of a 11-story building that remained erect but slightly leaning after a building demolition. * 161 Maiden Lane under construction in New York City * The Millennium Tower in San Francisco; an examination in 2016 showed the building had sunk 16 inches, with a two-inch tilt towards the north west * The Ocean Tower (The Leaning Tower of South Padre Island), in South Padre Island, Texas (demolished) * Sharps Island Light, 3 miles off the southern end of Tilghman Island, in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, has been leaning 15° since it was damaged by an ice floe in 1977 * Haskell Road house, a house in Nevada City, CA with unusual foundation settling and/or compromised shear design.
==Africa== ===South Africa=== *The clock tower on Cape Town's waterfront.<ref>{{Cite web |title=V&A Waterfront Clocktower, the sentry at the docks |url=https://www.capetownetc.com/cape-town/va-waterfront-clocktower-the-sentry-at-the-docks/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=www.capetownetc.com}}</ref>
==Oceania== {{multiple image | align = right | total_width = 320 | image_style = border:none; | image1 = Gravity Discovery Centre - A looking from E.jpg | caption1 = Leaning Tower, Gravity Discovery Centre, Gingin, Australia | image2 = Stability testing from Matthijs at Wanaka leaning tower New Zealand, very powerfull - panoramio.jpg | caption2 = Leaning Tower, Puzzling World, Wānaka, New Zealand }}
===Australia=== * The Leaning Tower at the Gravity Discovery Centre in Gingin
===New Zealand=== * The Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch (demolished in 2012 after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake) * The Leaning Tower of Wanaka at the Puzzling World in Wānaka {{-}}
==See also== {{portal|Architecture}} *Inclined building *Inclined tower * Crooked spire
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.china.org.cn/english/2003/Apr/62115.htm Leaning Towers of China]
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