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Its walls enclose a still-intact 12th-century round tower, 13th-century Gothic cathedral and exquisite 12th-century Romanesque chapel.
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Perk up with a caffeine boost and breakfast at Monmouth Coffee, then walk east to cross Tower Bridge and admire the 11th-Century Tower of London.
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In the category of homes that are guaranteed to make you drool, we took a peek at an eight-story 19th-century water tower that a London couple transformed into a high-flying single-family home.
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Glimpse Brunelleschi's dome from the narrow streets of Florence and suddenly the behemoths of 20th-century architecture--the Sears Tower, the World Trade Center--shrink in importance.
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Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.
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As the only approved manufacturer of safety lamps in Wales, ETW produces 21st-century safety lamps which are still in use at Tower Colliery and other mines throughout the world.
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The 13th-century citadel provides the focal point of the town with its typical tower houses (Turkish kule).
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From one overlook in Higashiyama, the wooden, 15th-century Yasaka Pagoda, at 49m high, juxtaposed the modern 131m Kyoto Tower.
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This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
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In Los Angeles' tony Century City district JMB owns a large block of land that it may soon develop into a 38-story tower, to be dubbed Constellation Place.
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After the city was re-conquered in the 13th Century, the mosque was converted into the Catedral de Sevilla, and its connecting tower reached its final 104m height in the 16th Century.
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