Towers

A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.

General Ioannis Metaxas' regime (1936-41) built some 400 bomb shelters in Athens, while it imposed by law the creation of a shelter in every new building, raising the number to 5,500 from 1936 to 1940, author and researcher Konstantinos Kyrimis, who has been recording them for over a decade, tells Kathimerini, citing an official Hellenic Army report.

The Nordic nation of 5.5 million people has some 50,500 bomb shelters that can fit…4.8 million inhabitants in them, in case of an emergency or an attack!

Paris 2024 organizers have been planning to install the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.

It features many tower houses, including the Zarouhla Tower

Amid the controversial issue regarding claims that the clocks on the southern province of Antalya's clock tower are fake, a watch repairer has claimed that the clocks on many historical towers across Türkiye are also fake.

The locations of the lighthouses

The ongoing restoration works on the historical clock tower in the southern province of Antalya have revealed that the original clock inserted on the outer surface of the tower at the beginning of the 20th century was stolen and a plastic clock was put instead.

He said it would be like the Nazi occupation forces had taken the Eiffel Tower

The open-air booksellers of Paris, a fixture along the banks of the Seine for centuries, are seeing their numbers dwindle after two years of Covid, with stalls going empty thanks to a dearth of local and foreign customers.