The renovated clocktower will incorporate a Prague-styled astronomical clock called an orloj ... Once it's done, it will be known as the Immigration Tower and will include figurines made in ...

Thursday marks exactly 550 years since the foundation stone of Prague’s Powder Tower was laid. The Gothic gateway remains one of the city's most iconic medieval landmarks.

Clocks involving mechanical figures often tell a story. In Prague, the astronomical clock set into the Old Town Hall Tower shows the procession of the Twelve Apostles, as the hour strikes from 9am ...

Prague, the capital of Czechia, while a breathtaking destination, houses some of the most offbeat stories hidden in its depths.

Jonathan Stoneman gives his personal view in Comment. In front of Prague's old town clock tower, in a parade, the figure of death has just emerged from a door in the wall and is ringing in the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The clock ... Clock Tower — now has 12 figurines that rotate on the hour to the music of Czech composers Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana. It also features a Prague-style ...

The clock would later be seriously damaged by the Nazis and during fighting to drive them from Prague. A giant portrait of Hitler on Prague’s Old Town Square in 1941. After the war, the building ...

The Museum held a ceremony to celebrate its Buresh Immigration Clock Tower playing its music once again after it stopped for the winter season. “We’re so glad to have this only one in Cedar ...

one of the best places to get a bird's-eye view of the city and the Prague Astronomical Clock, a beautiful timepiece dating back to the 1400s. Other architectural highlights found within the ...