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Torre dei Mannelli

The Torre dei Mannelli is a small tower on the southeast corner of the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, Italy. It is the only survivor of the four towers which once defended each corner of the bridge. In 1565, the Mannelli family refused to have ...

Torre dei Pulci

The Torre dei Pulci is a historical tower in Florence, Italy. The tower was the residence of the Pulci family in medieval and Renaissance times, including poet Luigi Pulci. It was in origin a purely defensive tower, which was enlarged until it be ...

Torre del Gallo

The Torre del Gallo is a historical building located in Florence, Italy, located at Pian de Giullari, in the hills of Arcetri, on top of a ridge overlooking the city where there is a magnificent panorama.

Neva Towers

The Neva Towers, formerly the Renaissance Moscow Towers, is a complex of two skyscrapers located on plots 17 and 18 of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. Tower 1 will be 302 meters tall and have 69 floors while Tower 2 wi ...

Sendeturm Dobratsch

The Sendeturm Dobratsch is a radio tower on the Dobratsch mountain, the easternmost peak of the Gailtal Alps near Villach in Carinthia, Austria. The transmitter was built in 1971 and obtained a temporary object on the bottom of the pyramidenkogel ...

Cabot Tower (St. Johns)

Cabot Tower is a tower in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, situated on Signal Hill. Construction of the tower began in 1898 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabots discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee. I ...

CKX-TV Craig Television Tower

The CKX-TV Craig broadcasting tower is a 411.5 metre 1.350 feet-high guyed TV mast located in Hayfield, Manitoba, Canada. It is currently the second-tallest structure in Canada. The current structure is actually the second version built at the si ...

Suzhou RunHua Global Center

The Suzhou RunHua Global Center, formerly the SPG Global Towers, are a pair of skyscrapers in Suzhou, China. Groundbreaking on the buildings began in 2007, and they were completed in 2010. Building A is 282 m to the architectural tip with 49 floo ...

Wenbi Tower

Wenbi Tower is a tower in Changzhou, China, located near Hongmei Park. It was built during the Southern Dynasties, Qi Gaozu, Xiao Daocheng, Jianyuan, and first named Jianyuan Temple. Later, it was changed to Peace Tower. Because the tower looks l ...

Phare du Monde

Phare du Monde was an observation tower planned for the 1937 World Fair in Paris, France. The Phare du Monde, advertised as a "Pleasure Tower Half Mile High" was designed by Eugene Freyssinet, and was to be a 701-metre tall concrete tower with a ...

Tower of Aliartos

The Tower of Aliartos or Tower of Moulki is a late medieval tower near Aliartos, in Boeotia, central Greece. It sits on a cliff, located close to the modern national road from Thebes to Livadeia, and on the southern shore of the ancient Lake Copa ...

Tower of Amfikleia

The Tower of Amfikleia is a late medieval tower at Amfikleia, in Phthiotis, central Greece. Amfikleia informed Dadi, occupies a strategic position on the Northern slopes of mount Parnassus, and South of the Boeotic Cephissus. The tower is located ...

Frankish tower of Lilaia

The Frankish tower of Lilaia is a late medieval tower near Lilaia, in Phocis, central Greece. Lilaia lies on the Northern slopes of mount Parnassus and close to the sources of Boeotic Cephissus. The tower is about 1 km 0.62 miles South-East of th ...

Domotor Tower

The Domotor tower is the oldest building in Szeged, Hungary. The foundation was most probably laid during the 11th century, while the lower part was built from the 12th century, and the upper part from the 13th century. The tower was once part of ...

Miskolc-Avas TV Tower

Miskolc-Avas TV Tower is a 72 metre tall TV tower with an observation deck on the Avas hill in Miskolc, Hungary. The Avas TV Tower was designed by Miklos Hofer and Gyorgy Voros, and was built in 1966 in place of a wooden lookout tower. It is comm ...

House of commerce

The House of commerce, is an office tower located at Kringlan 7 near Kringlan shopping mall in Reykjavik, Iceland. The building was constructed from 1975-1981. The building has a 4-based tower structure, the tallest one being approximately 54 met ...

Vatnsstigur 16-18

Vatnsstigur 16-18 is a residential tower located in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland. It is a part of a larger project called Shadow district under phase 2. This tower is the tallest residential tower in Reykjavik, standing 69.35 m tall. construction ...

Balbriggan

Balbriggan is a town and outer suburb of Dublin in the northern part of Fingal, Ireland. The 2016 census population was 21.722 for Balbriggan and its environs.

Ballyduff, County Kerry

Ballyduff is a village near Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. Located on R551 between Ballyheigue and Ballybunion on hills above Cashen Bay where the River Feale flows to the sea at the mouth of the River Shannon.

Beach Tower, Waterford

The Beach Tower located in Jenkins Lane car park, Waterford is a 15th century crenelated building which is part of the city defences. It was built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the River Suir and forms a natural defensive position. Tower is a gr ...

Bray, County Wicklow

Bray is a coastal town in north County Wicklow, Ireland. It is situated about 20 km south of Dublin city centre on the east coast. It has a population of 32.600 making it the ninth largest urban area within Ireland. Bray was a resort town, sittin ...

Carrickgollogan

Carrickgollogan is a hill in County Dublin in Republic of Ireland. It is 276 metres high and rises above the village of Shankill on the eastern edge of the Dublin Mountains. Its summit is noted for the panoramic views it offers of south Dublin an ...

Castledermot Round Tower

Castledermot Round Tower is a 10th-century round tower in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. The tower, and the high crosses nearby, are a National Monument.

Clondalkin

Clondalkin is a suburban town situated 10 km south-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland, under the administrative jurisdiction of South Dublin. It features an eighth-century round tower that acts as a focal point for the area. Clondalkin forms par ...

Clondalkin Round Tower

Clondalkin Round Tower is an Irish round tower or cloigtheach founded by Saint Mochua, also known as Saint Cronan, and located in Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland. It is now a National Monument of Ireland.

Cloyne Round Tower

Cloyne Round Tower is a round tower in the historically monastic town of Cloyne, County Cork in Ireland. Cloyne was also the "see city" of the Anglican Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. The tower is a symbol for the town of Cloyne.

Dalkey Island

Dalkey Island is an island for which the nearby village of Dalkey is named. It is an uninhabited island located c. 16 km south of Dublin and 3 km south of Dun Laoghaire harbour. An important site of pilgrimage for centuries, it has been known as ...

Double Tower

The Double Tower is one of the 17 towers which were part of the city walls of Waterford, Munster, Ireland. It was built in the latter part of the 15th century and the early part of the 16th century. Six of the original 17 towers survive to this d ...

Dromiskin

Dromiskin is a village and townland in County Louth, Ireland. It is situated 10 km south of Dundalk, about 1 km inland from the Irish Sea coast.

French Tower

The French Tower is a tower at the top of Castle Street in Waterford, Munster, Ireland. It is one of the six surviving towers of the city walls of Waterford. The tower most likely dates from the 13th or 14th century. The origin of the name is unc ...

Innishannon Tower

There are two currently working churches in the town of Innishannon, one Catholic and one Church of Ireland. Beside the River Bandon is the abandoned St. Marys church and graveyard, probably initially Cistercian, which has been both throughout it ...

Moher Tower

Moher Tower is the stone ruin of an old Napoleonic-era watchtower which stands on Hags Head, at the southern end of the Cliffs of Moher, in County Clare, Ireland.

Portmarnock

Portmarnock is a coastal suburban settlement in Fingal, Ireland, with significant beaches and one of Irelands best-known golf clubs, a modest commercial core, and inland residential estates. Portmarnock is also an Ancient parish in Coolock Barony ...

Reginalds Tower

Reginalds Tower is a historic tower in Waterford, Munster, Ireland. It is located at the eastern end of the city quay. The tower has been in usage for different purposes for many centuries and is an important landmark in Waterford and an importan ...

Sandycove

Sandycove is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is south east of Dun Laoghaire and Glasthule, and north west of Dalkey. It is a popular seaside resort and is well known for its bathing place, the Forty Foot, which in the past was reserved for men on ...

Seapoint

Seapoint is a small seafront area between Blackrock and Monkstown in Dublin in the Dun Laoghaire–Rathdown area. It is best known for its beach and bathing areas, beside a Martello Tower on the Dublin Bay seashore. The beach currently has an Inter ...

Sutton, Dublin

Sutton is a residential suburb on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. It occupies the tombolo which links Howth Head to the mainland, some of the lower slopes of Howth Hill, and a little of the adjacent coasts. The area lies within the jurisdiction ...

Tower of Flies

The Tower of Flies was a formidable guard tower/fort at the medieval city-port of Acre, Israel, which overlooked the harbour from a small island and protected the city’s rich maritime trade. It also served as a lighthouse. Its exact origin is unk ...

Chiba Port Tower

Chiba Port Tower is a tower located in Chiba Port Park, Chūō-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is 125.1 m tall and has four stories. It was built in 1986.

Kaikyō Yume Tower

The Kaikyō Yume Tower dominates the city of Shimonoseki and is the tallest tower in western Japan. Standing 153 metres tall, it was opened in July 1996. It forms a part of the Kaikyō Messe Shimonoseki building, which houses a conference centre an ...

Cunerakerk

The Cunerakerk is the main church of Rhenen, Netherlands. During the Middle Ages it was an important pilgrimage site. The church has stored the relics of the Saint Cunera since the 8th century. The tower has a height of 81.8 metres.

Dom Tower of Utrecht

The Dom Tower of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, at 112.5 metres in height, and the Gothic-style tower is the symbol of the city. The tower was part of the St. Martins Cathedral, also known as Dom Church, and was built bet ...

Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk (The Hague)

Great or St. James Church k") is a landmark Protestant church in The Hague, Netherlands. The building is located on the Torenstraat, named for its high tower. Together with the Binnenhof, it is one of the oldest buildings in The Hague. Members of ...

Onze Lieve Vrouwetoren

The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwetoren") is a church tower in Amersfoort. The Late Gothic building is 98.33 metres tall and reaches high above the inner city. It is one of the most eye-catching monuments in town and the third highest church tower in the Neth ...

Jagodnik transmitter

Jagodnik transmitter is an FM- and TV-broadcasting facility of TP Emitel near Jagonik, a part of Milejewo community, situated in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland at 54°12′28″N 19°29′41″E. Jagodnik transmitter antenna uses a 115 metre tall l ...

Transmitter Heilsberg

The Heilsberg transmitter was a large radio transmitting station operated by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft between 1930 and 1945 in the German Province of East Prussia. It was sited approximately 3 kilometres northwest of Lidzbark Warminski, o ...

Chindia Tower

The Chindia Tower is a tower in the Curtea Domneasca monuments ensemble in Targoviste, Romania, built in the 15th century. The tower was begun during the second reign of Prince Vlad III the Impaler over Wallachia and took its final form during th ...

Council Tower of Sibiu

The Council Tower of Sibiu is a tower situated between the two main squares of Sibiu, the Great Square and the Small Square. It was built in the 12th century, but was also rebuilt several times, its architecture was changed. In the course of hist ...

Gradina Tower

Gradina Tower is a remainder of a military fortification in the village of Radljevo, 11 kilometers from Ivanjica, in Serbia. Today, the tower is a culturally-historical monument. The monument consists of a tower and the remains of a Bastion a mil ...

Iriski Venac Tower

Iriski Venac Tower is a 170-metre-tall TV tower built of concrete on Iriski Venac near Novi Sad, Serbia. It consists of a 120-metre-tall concrete structure with two baskets on which the 30-metre-long section with FM-antennas has been placed. On t ...