Wednesday, 28 April 2010

The clock tower


It is in the "Marques de la Cadena" Square, near to the Santiago church. There is modern sculpture in bronze of Ramiro I of Aragon (1035-1064). It is a civil Gothic building, officially the Clock Tower populary the Jail Tower from 1602.

It is a sample of the civil Gothic and it was contructed around 1445 as a private residence, in the same place where the palace of the Aragonese monarch was.

(Nowadays it is) Until recently it was the seat of the Work Community of the Pyrenees. The conference rooms and office are distributed over four floors and the vaulted basement of the restored tower.

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