Many years ago there lived a girl called Nara. She could sing very well and play the psaltery .She loved a young man and wanted to marry him. One day she was sitting near a large beautiful lake when a rich man saw her. He liked Nara so much that he wanted to marry her. As Nara had a fiancé she didn't want to marry the rich man. But the rich man was very stubborn, and his servants killed Nara’s fiancé and took Nara to the rich man’s palace. The girl was so unhappy that when everybody was sleeping, she set fire to the palace, and ran away. When the rich man learnt about it, he sent his servants after Nara. As she couldn't run away from them, Nara dived into the lake and died. From that time the lake was named Lake Naroch.
The Leaning Tower is the best-known sight of the Italian city of Pisa. Its building started in 1173. But five years later the tower began to tilt. The soft clay soil couldn’t bear the weight of such a heavy structure. The construction was halted for almost a century to let the clay beneath the foundation harden.It took over 800 years to finish all the building works. Many generations of engineers took efforts to straighten the tower but in vain.
Now the Leaning Tower has seven bells and eight floors. Its maximum height is 55.86 meters. There are 294 steps to its top.
Every year the Tower of Pisa attracts millions of tourists and thousands of scientists. But most of them admire the structure from outside because of entrance restrictions. Only thirty people are allowed to stay inside at a time.
The legend of Lake Naroch
Many years ago there lived a girl called Nara. She could sing very well and play the psaltery .She loved a young man and wanted to marry him. One day she was sitting near a large beautiful lake when a rich man saw her. He liked Nara so much that he wanted to marry her. As Nara had a fiancé she didn't want to marry the rich man. But the rich man was very stubborn, and his servants killed Nara’s fiancé and took Nara to the rich man’s palace. The girl was so unhappy that when everybody was sleeping, she set fire to the palace, and ran away. When the rich man learnt about it, he sent his servants after Nara. As she couldn't run away from them, Nara dived into the lake and died. From that time the lake was named Lake Naroch.
The Leaning Tower is the best-known sight of the Italian city of Pisa. Its building started in 1173. But five years later the tower began to tilt. The soft clay soil couldn’t bear the weight of such a heavy structure. The construction was halted for almost a century to let the clay beneath the foundation harden.It took over 800 years to finish all the building works. Many generations of engineers took efforts to straighten the tower but in vain.
Now the Leaning Tower has seven bells and eight floors. Its maximum height is 55.86 meters. There are 294 steps to its top.
Every year the Tower of Pisa attracts millions of tourists and thousands of scientists. But most of them admire the structure from outside because of entrance restrictions. Only thirty people are allowed to stay inside at a time.