We arrived at 9am so nice and quiet, we took our hike up at 9.30, such a beautiful place to visit, we stayed for around 3 hours, visiting the cathedral and stopping off to have a drink in a cafe to cool off. It got very very busy, toilets are €1 which were clean. As we were early we parked only a few minutes walk away.

We arrived at the Campo dei Miracoli (“ Field of Miracles”) just before 10am and it was just starting to get busy at this time. However we managed to get some good and obligatory pics of us and the Leaning Tower.

We had pre booked tickets to enter the Tower at 11am so before that we visited the Doumo and just walked around the area. There are toilets here (€1 payable by card) and you must put any bags etc into lockers provided before you can go up the tower.

The passage way up the tower is relatively steep and narrow but not a particularly hard walk up. The views at the top are somewhat impeded by the high safety fence but it is still cool to climb and visit.

When we were leaving the tower it was just after 11.30am and the area was much busier now so glad we visited early.

I have no idea what the hype is about because it’s just a tower. Don’t visit here if you don’t like history. Anyway, it’s a nice tower.