Vinohradská vodárna
Neo-Renaissance pumping tower with angel-topped corner clocks, once gravity-feeding a district's water supply.
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This guide to the Vinohradska vodarna in Prague explains why an 1882 water-pumping station was built to look like a fairy-tale castle, complete with four stone angels holding clocks at its corners. It traces architect Antonin Turek's design and the steam engines hidden inside, hauling river water up to a rooftop tank that then fed the neighborhoods of Zizkov and Vrsovice by gravity alone. Look up at the angels as you listen for the hour.
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