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Tophane Clock Tower

Turkey

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Tophane Clock Tower (Tophane Saat Kulesi) is a clock tower in Bursa, Turkey. It has six floors and is 33m in height. The tower currently has a radio clock and is used as a fire lookout station. There was a different clock tower in the place of the current one, which was destroyed in an unknown date. The construction of the current tower began on 2 August 1904 and was finished on 31 August 1905.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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