After more than a decade of closure and building work, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is to reopen to tourists in November after engineers managed to save the building from toppling and reduce its tilt by 16 inches. The £15m project has reformed the tower's infamous lean to the same amount it was some 300 years ago and engineers now hope to ensure the tower's structural survival for another 300 years. Tourists will help to cover the cost of the refurbishment through an £8 entry fee which will allow access to the 183ft tower for a maximum period of half an hour. When the attraction closed in 1990, entry was £1.30 and more than a million visitors flocked to the landmark every year. The tower will be officially handed back to the mayor of Pisa, Paolo Fontanelli next weekend in a gala concert led by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.