Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisa
Getting to Pisa required a bus, a train, and another bus before getting out at a walled entrance and a gauntlet of hucksters wanting to sell cheap belts, armloads of junk watches, fake Dolce & Gabbana stuff, and a whole array of souvenirs before you even got anywhere near the tower.
Usually, you see Pisa as just the tower, all by itself, and you probably thought it was this tower, off by itself. Actually, it's surrounded by a church and a baptistry and looks more like this:
Even the church is a rip off because they charge you admission to get in, somehow miffed I guess that they weren't able to chisel some money out of you to get a look at the tower. It seems wrong to me to make people pay to go inside a church, even if it isn't being used as a church any more. Unsurprisingly, the shrieks of greed and capitalism circling the church drown out whatever message the church ever had, so the money grubbing two euros they're still trying to grasp almost seem beside the point, if there even was one.
Everyone is either playing an accordion and trying to make a buck in front of the tower....
Or pretending to tip it over to hold it up while their friend takes the same picture:
Graffiti on the train:
