Tourist attraction
Torre dell'Orologio
Clock tower whose mechanical carousel once paraded an angel and three wise men every hour.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Clock Tower in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, centers on the automaton parade that used to draw crowds to this exact spot every hour for over three hundred years: a trumpet-playing angel and three wise men bowing before a statue of the Madonna. You will hear how the tower began as one law professor's private timepiece before the city took over the clock in the thirteen and fourteen hundreds. Best heard standing in the square, looking straight up at the tower face.
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