The sound of the Middle Ages

I promised to post more photos from Sighisoara - here's the next batch.

In the last few posts about the place I almost constantly mentioned the Clock tower, but I never showed any photos from there.

About the place:
Here it is - built and rebuilt from the 14th century. The current look – which is pretty impressive - is due to a fire in 16th century, which destroyed much of the old tower. Today, the Clock tower, guards the main entrance to the citadel and the old town and is the symbol of Sighisoara. No matter where you are in the town, the tower is visible and serves as a great landmark. Moreover, it is considered one of the most beautiful in all of Transylvania.
Unlike the other towers along the fortification wall, which were built by various guilds, this one was common propery - as the most important and the strongest in the city.

Today the tower houses a great museum and an amazing clock with seven figures, similar to that in Prague. These figures, however, depict the seven days of the week and change daily , not hourly.

If you have time, do visit the museum and the tower insides - the exhibits are very interesting, and the view from top of the tower is a stunning panorama of Sighisoara. The funnies thing is that they put signs with directions and distance of most of the major cities in the world, so you can take a photo next to them (it's fun)

The story behind the shot:
This is what you can see now and what the people in the 16th and 17th centuries saw, when entering the town. The Clock tower doesn't seem very high from this perspective, but it's actually 64 meter high (the roof being 34 of them). If you want to fit in the whole tower in the frame, you must go to the bend of the road that leads to it(from there you can also photograph the covered pedestrian passage).

I don't know about you, but I can almost see under the tower a line of carts with products and pedestrians with capes...

Photo advice and safety:
Stairs inside the tower are steep and narrow, so be watch your step, you can get seriously hurt. To capture the panorama wide-angle lens would be a good idea or at least a standard focal range one.

Access to the tower is only available if you buy a ticket to the museum (where you'll find out more about the history of the town) and only during office hours. The tower is closed at night, as you can only go through the pass under it, but cannot go inside.
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