This building is the last remaining of the 18 towers of the old city fortress. It was a gunpowder storage as well as an old torture chamber and even prison. Nowadays it is a museum. Under the greenery there are some cannonballs still stuck in the wall.
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Sunday, 12 October 2008
Gunpowder tower
This building is the last remaining of the 18 towers of the old city fortress. It was a gunpowder storage as well as an old torture chamber and even prison. Nowadays it is a museum. Under the greenery there are some cannonballs still stuck in the wall.
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