Prague is home ot many of the most famous landmarks in Europe, such as the Charles Bridge and the clock tower in its old city square. The Guinness Book of World Records named Prague Castle the largest ...
Lucerne is especially well-known for its wooden bridges. Today, the Chapel Bridge runs from the New Town on the southern bank of the Reuss to the Rathausquai in the medieval Old Town, zigzagging as it ...
Today the 14th-century Town Hall Tower stands as a prime example of Polish Gothic architecture, and few realise that it actually leans some 55cm, a curiosity credited to a particularly forceful wind ...
Tim Moore (Travel, Life & Arts, November 2) is mistaken in stating that only Vienna saw fit to commemorate a 17th-century plague epidemic with an enormous baroque tower, the Pestsäule on the Graben.