The Fire Tower
Forty-two-metre fire lookout tower from 1890, now a firefighters' museum with a rooftop viewpoint.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Foișorul de Foc, the Fire Tower in Bucharest, follows the ghost stories that cling to a nineteenth-century firefighters' lookout that never managed to be the water tower it was designed as. It touches on the half past eleven footsteps people claim to hear, a firefighter whose end has become legend, and a jealous wife who went looking for the truth inside the tower. Best heard from the pavement opposite, where you can see the windows of the lower floors.
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