The Fire Tower (Foișorul de Foc)

București · Rumænien · Urban site

The Foișorul de Foc, Bucharest's 42-metre fire-watch tower from 1890, was once the city's tallest structure, where firemen kept round-the-clock watch for smoke above the rooftops. A curiously precise legend clings to it: on the ninth of every month, at 11:30 pm, lights are said to come on in the locked tower with no one inside. Others say it is the spirit of a fireman's wife who climbs the stairs, forever awaiting a husband who never returned from his final call. The tower now houses the firefighters' museum – nocturnal light shows, they insist, are not part of the exhibition.

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Hvor ligger The Fire Tower (Foișorul de Foc)?

The Fire Tower (Foișorul de Foc) ligger i București, Rumænien.

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