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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.
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.
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 ...
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In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
Bulgaria, [a] officially the Republic of Bulgaria, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north.
Clock towers by country. This is a container category. Due to its scope, ... Clock towers in Bulgaria (3 P) C. Clock towers in Canada (18 P) Clock towers in China (6 P)
In the niche where the old clock once stood, sculptures of the city's patron saints, St. Constantine and St. Helena, are now placed. Then there is an eight-tiered prism, 10 metres (33 ft) high. It has a metal ladder and windows that illuminate it with natural light. At the top of the tower there are four Swiss clocks and a lightning rod.