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.
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.
Its walls enclose a still-intact 12th-century round tower, 13th-century Gothic cathedral and exquisite 12th-century Romanesque chapel.
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.
It was also an outpost of the Venetian empire in the 15th century: a Venetian tower dominates the view of the site from a distance.
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.
But now, as is increasingly common in museums, a more chronological approach prevails, so that varied objects from a given era can be shown in tandem to give a sense of the period fine art, for instance, may be seen alongside furniture, craft items or even machinery beginning with the Middle Ages on the lower floors and culminating with the 20th century under the eaves of the tower galleries.
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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.
There is also the Powder Tower, a striking 15th Century fragment of the original city walls, at which the occasional medieval fair is staged.
The church tower was built in the 15th Century and was originally used as a beacon for travellers from the North for many years.
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.
The 13th-century citadel provides the focal point of the town with its typical tower houses (Turkish kule).
This 73-meter-high sandstone tower was built as a symbol of victory in the 13th century.
From one overlook in Higashiyama, the wooden, 15th-century Yasaka Pagoda, at 49m high, juxtaposed the modern 131m Kyoto Tower.
"There is no better time to be in the Philippines than now, " says Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties, a Manila real estate firm whose array of luxury construction projects includes Trump Tower, Makati City.
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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