The Zytglogge tower is located in Bern, Switzerland, and is a landmark medieval tower which wa built in the 13th century as a prison, guard tower, civic memorial and centre of urban life, besides being a clock tower. There are lights featured in the upper part of the tower to indicate weather forecasts, as well as in the clock hands and the numbers on the dial of the clock. At a height of 240m., it is one of the world’s tallest clock towers. diameter clock installed to the building, it is a perfect example of a modern day clock tower. The NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building is located in Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan. tall, the clock tower once used to be the tallest structure of the city until 1920. Its tower claims to have the largest four-faced chiming clock, with faces of 7.5m. Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse is located in Minnesota, and is the main building used by the city government of Minneapolis, as well as Hennepin County. Mounted in 1410, it is the world’s oldest astronomical clock in a working condition, and the third oldest of all astronomical clocks, with a dial representing positions of the sun and moon, and other details, a calendar dial, and the hourly show of Apostle figures.
The Prague astronomical clock, called the Prague Orloj, is installed on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in Prague, Czech Republic. It has 32 life-sized figures that come to life every day at 11 am, and at 12pm and 5 pm during summers, re-enacting two stories from the 16th century, after which, a small rooster chirps thrice, just like a co-coo clock. It is a part of the New Town Hall, installed during its second construction phase in 1908. The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is located in Marienplatz, Munich, and is a major tourist attraction. tower features eight sundials, and has a water clock in the interior. In fact, it is the earliest clock tower, supposedly constructed around 50 BC, by Andronicus of Cyrrhus, though many sources also claim that it was built in the 2nd century BC.
It is an octagonal clock tower, made of Pentelic marble.
The Tower of the Winds is located in the Roman Agora of Athens.
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