Tourist attraction
Stadtturm
Gothic watchtower topped by a green onion dome, whose keepers once lived aloft scanning for fire.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Stadtturm in Innsbruck opens with a discrepancy: the tower stands fifty-one meters tall, yet its public viewing gallery stops at only thirty-one. It follows the Turmer, the watchmen who lived above that gallery for over four centuries, keeping watch for fire and ringing the hours for a city with no clocks of its own. You will hear how a post appointed in fifteen twenty-nine slowly stopped being needed. Look up at the sealed onion dome, added in fifteen sixty, while you stand on the gallery.
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