Your Favorite European Towers?
Sep 4th, 2008, 11:05 AM
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Your Favorite European Towers?
I love towers - love to traipse up them if possible and love to see them - what are your favorite Towers?
Mine:
Eiffel Tower - no doubt
Pisa's Leaning Tower
Venice - St Mark's Square
London - Big Ben (OK the name of the big bell in Parliament Tower)
Bruges - Market Square Tower
Florence - green and white (?) Duomo Tower
San Gimignano and Lucca, Italy for
their forest of old towers where wealthy clans wholed up in time of turmoil and plagues raging below
Gent Belgium Tower in main square
and yours?
Mine:
Eiffel Tower - no doubt
Pisa's Leaning Tower
Venice - St Mark's Square
London - Big Ben (OK the name of the big bell in Parliament Tower)
Bruges - Market Square Tower
Florence - green and white (?) Duomo Tower
San Gimignano and Lucca, Italy for
their forest of old towers where wealthy clans wholed up in time of turmoil and plagues raging below
Gent Belgium Tower in main square
and yours?
Sep 4th, 2008, 11:23 AM
#2
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,214
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Some German ones:
Hamburg, the Michel
Lighthouse on Neuwerk island
Dresden, Palace tower
Kiel-Laboe, Marine memorial
Ulm, steeple of Münster church
Freiburg, ditto
Want a leaning tower? Forget Pisa and see the steeple of the church in Suurhusen, Ostfriesland.
Pisa: 3:97° - Suurhusen: 5.19°
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...jpg?uselang=de
Hamburg, the Michel
Lighthouse on Neuwerk island
Dresden, Palace tower
Kiel-Laboe, Marine memorial
Ulm, steeple of Münster church
Freiburg, ditto
Want a leaning tower? Forget Pisa and see the steeple of the church in Suurhusen, Ostfriesland.
Pisa: 3:97° - Suurhusen: 5.19°
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...jpg?uselang=de
Sep 4th, 2008, 12:22 PM
#5
The green and white tower next to the Duomo in Florence would be Giotto's campanile. I climbed it within 2 hours of my arrival in Italy for the first time, and fell in love with Florence because of the view from the top.
The Torre del Mangia in Siena is a wonderful tower to look at, but I think that the view from walls of the Duomo (accessed through the museum) in Siena are better (if only because you get to see much of the Campo including the Torre).
The Torre del Mangia in Siena is a wonderful tower to look at, but I think that the view from walls of the Duomo (accessed through the museum) in Siena are better (if only because you get to see much of the Campo including the Torre).
Sep 4th, 2008, 12:28 PM
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
walkaround - thanks for that Trellick Tower mention - something new to track down in London as well as Balfron Tower i guess.
Trellick Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trellick Tower is a 31-story block of flats in North Kensington, London, W10. It was designed in the Brutalist style by architect Ernő Goldfinger [1], ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower
Balfron Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balfron Tower is a 27-storey housing block in the Poplar district of the ... and Goldfinger's later similar but more famous Trellick Tower in west London, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfron_Tower
