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The Clock tower of Botevgrad (Bulgarian: Часовниковата кула в Ботевград) is the symbol of the town and a part of 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria. Its clock mechanism still rings every hour with a respective number of bell rings based on the current hour. It was constructed in 1866. [1]
The clock tower in the city of Razgrad, northeastern Bulgaria, is about 25 metres (82 ft) high and dates to the Ottoman era.. It is among the vast number of clock towers spreading in Bulgaria after the rise of the first clock towers in the Western Balkans during the second half of the 16th century, the earliest evidence of which was the clock tower in Plovdiv in 1611.
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A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
The tower stands on the Unification Square. The first tower was established in 1741 in Tatar Pazardzhik, which was located in the Ottoman Empire. The clock tower in Pazardzhik is very old and was originally built in 1741. At the time exact time was something exotic and the Ottoman idea of time was a very loose concept.
Rumen Radev became Bulgaria's fifth democratically elected president when he was sworn in for a five-year term in January 2017. A former air force commander, Mr Radev is a relative newcomer to ...
The town square, named Capitan Diado Nikola, with the clock tower, dating from 1814, are among the landmarks. Another tourist attraction is the "kivgireniyat" bridge, built above the river behind the clock tower. One of the first secular schools in Bulgaria was built on Capitan Diado Nikola Square.
Pages in category "Clock towers in Bulgaria" ... Pazardzhik Clock Tower; R. Razgrad clock tower This page was last edited on 10 October 2018, at 16:54 (UTC ...