The raising of the palace was interrupted during Wold War I, lasting from 1906 to 1925. The stamp with the face value of lei 3.30 depicts the Tower of the Palace of Culture from Iasi.
From the very beginning, the tower had clock dials, one on each of its 4 sides, while in 1880 the current clock was installed, indicating the phases of the moon.
In over 500 years since its building, the tower was damaged numerous times due to lighting and storms, which have destroyed its roof and sometimes the interior as well. A legend tells that the trumpeter would have been thrown off the top of the tower if he had raised the alarm erroneously. The Trumpeters’ Tower is in fact among the world’s top 10 most tilted buildings.ĭuring medieval times, the trumpeter used to inhabit one of the four corner turrets of the tower and would trumpet news about incoming enemy troops, fires in the citadel, or approaching convoys of dignitaries from the top of the tower. The tilting has occurred because of the extra weight added to the tower later on, as the tower was further heightened with its top floors. It is 68 m tall and at its top is tilted from the central axis of the tower by 2.28 m. Margaret Church, and after, the topmost floors, finalised in 1551. The tower was raised in two stages: first, the lower floors, built at the same time as St. On the stamp with the face value of lei 3.10 is illustrated The Trumpeters’ Tower of Medias. It survived the two World Wars, the clock dials still bearing the marks of bullets from 1944, when the battles for the liberation of Transylvania took place. The clock was built in 1904, having 4 dials, one on each side of the tower. The clock from the third level plays at specific times „Iancu’s March”. At the first level we can find the tower clock mechanism. The Tower of Oradea City Hall, illustrated on the stamp with the face value of lei 3.00, was built between 1902-1903, being 50 m tall, structured on 4 levels. In recognition of the historical and architectural value of clocks and clock towers, Romfilatelia dedicates the postage stamp issue of 6 stamps Towers of Time, Clock Towers to some of the most representative assemblies of this type built over time in Romania. The oldest tower clock on Romania’s territory is the one from Cisnadie, a township next to Sibiu, which started its tracking of time around 1425. In 13th century England, appear the first mechanical clock-bearing towers, the oldest surviving tower clock, that of the Salisbury Cathedral, dating from 1386. The first known mechanical clock was built in China, in 725 c.e. TIMISOARA – 800 YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY TESTIMONYĮver since Antiquity, the measuring of time has been a preoccupation for people, who first started measuring it by the apparent movement of the sun and stars, later on inventing the first mechanisms for a more precise measuring of the passing of time – the hour glasses with sand and the hydraulic devices. TIMIȘOARA – 800 DE ANI DE ATESTARE DOCUMENTARÃ ROMANIAN ATHENAEUM – 125 YEARS SINCE THE INAUGURATION ATENEUL ROMÂN – 125 DE ANI DE LA INAUGURARE
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