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Is there any historical data to support the height of the towers in the first image? It looks like at least some of that is leaning on an artistic license.

toyg 2y ago
There are documents from the time and even paintings from later times, supporting these projections. You can see a partial list of the towers that have since disappeared here : https://www.torridibologna.it/torri-scomparse/ https://www.torridibologna.it/torri-scomparse/ . There were probably more that we just don't have documents for. Dante famously described Bologna as selva turrita, a forest of towers. It really was as crowded as that.
gg80 2y ago
Looking at this picture [1] of Bologna’s skyline from the sixties it seems it could be pretty realistic. The skyline has changed drastically and now you have many more tall buildings that make the remaining tower seems shorter. Also, I think the strangeness of the picture is due to the number of towers, but afaik there were around 100 towers in the city in the 13th century. [1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torri_di_Bologna#/media/File%3APaolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Bologna%2C_1965)_-_BEIC_6328985.jpg https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torri_di_Bologna#/media/File...
IlPeach 2y ago
Someone did look into exactly that. There is no supporting document regarding the actual height. And it does look like it is exaggerated for impact purposes. So they did have towers, they were clearly higher than the rest of the other buildings... Might have been this tall? Maybe. Or maybe not.
- timcobb 2y ago
  What are you referring to? Who looked into it? Are you citing something?
  - recursivecaveat 2y ago
    I think they might be referring to this video? https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g They traveled to the city and spoke to an actual historian on the matter. The "more accurate" model appears in the last 20s of the video if you are just curious about what our best guess of the actual appearance of the city is.
epolanski 2y ago
I don't know how tall are those in the first image, but consider that several towers reach beyond 300 feet (90 meters today), and documents point out that few reached beyond 330 in middle ages.
damnitbuilds 2y ago
[edit] This, existing, tower appear to approximate the height of those in that image: https://static.bolognawelcome.com/immagini/bb/ec/bd/1b/20220601102546.jpg https://static.bolognawelcome.com/immagini/bb/ec/bd/1b/20220...

toyg 2y ago

There are documents from the time and even paintings from later times, supporting these projections. You can see a partial list of the towers that have since disappeared here : https://www.torridibologna.it/torri-scomparse/ https://www.torridibologna.it/torri-scomparse/ . There were probably more that we just don't have documents for. Dante famously described Bologna as selva turrita, a forest of towers. It really was as crowded as that.

gg80 2y ago

Looking at this picture [1] of Bologna’s skyline from the sixties it seems it could be pretty realistic. The skyline has changed drastically and now you have many more tall buildings that make the remaining tower seems shorter. Also, I think the strangeness of the picture is due to the number of towers, but afaik there were around 100 towers in the city in the 13th century. [1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torri_di_Bologna#/media/File%3APaolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Bologna%2C_1965)_-_BEIC_6328985.jpg https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torri_di_Bologna#/media/File...

IlPeach 2y ago

Someone did look into exactly that. There is no supporting document regarding the actual height. And it does look like it is exaggerated for impact purposes. So they did have towers, they were clearly higher than the rest of the other buildings... Might have been this tall? Maybe. Or maybe not.

timcobb 2y ago
What are you referring to? Who looked into it? Are you citing something?
- recursivecaveat 2y ago
  I think they might be referring to this video? https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g https://youtu.be/ikg3-GQLg3g They traveled to the city and spoke to an actual historian on the matter. The "more accurate" model appears in the last 20s of the video if you are just curious about what our best guess of the actual appearance of the city is.

epolanski 2y ago

I don't know how tall are those in the first image, but consider that several towers reach beyond 300 feet (90 meters today), and documents point out that few reached beyond 330 in middle ages.

damnitbuilds 2y ago

[edit] This, existing, tower appear to approximate the height of those in that image: https://static.bolognawelcome.com/immagini/bb/ec/bd/1b/20220601102546.jpg https://static.bolognawelcome.com/immagini/bb/ec/bd/1b/20220...