Town Hall Tower, Kraków

Kraków has its own leaning tower, the 70m Town Hall Tower which leans just 55 cm – a strong wind did it in 1703. The gothic tower was built at the end of the 13th century and got its first clock in 1524. Several fires weakened the Town Hall Tower during the ensuing 150 years, so its west wall has been supported since 1680 by a mammoth buttress reaching up to the third floor. In 1685 the Town Hall Tower was heightened for 6.5 m. Its present baroque roof dates back to 1686. The tower once adjoined Kraków's splendid 13th-century Gothic Town Hall that was pulled down in the 1820s.
Kraków, Poland.