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Upper Hungary / Slovakia

St. Urban Tower

Urbanova veža
St. Urban Tower
Urbanova veža
St. Urban Tower
Original function:
bell tower
Current function:
bell tower
Settlement:
Kassa, Košice 
Address:
Hlavná, 040 01 Staré Mesto
Historical Hungarian county:
Abaúj-Torna
Country:
Slovakia
GPS coordinates:
48.720664, 21.258162
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History

The 45-metres high tower wears the name of St. Urban, the guardian of the grape growers of Kassa. Lindner Márton, the court architect of Price Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania, constructed the tower in 1628. The arcades were built in 1912 and some of the tombstones found during the renovation of the Cathedral of St. Elisabeth of Hungary were placed there.

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