Content Consulting & Fine Art Photography
Content Consulting & Fine Art Photography
Wherever you go, and whatever you do in Graz, take a walk around the Schlossberg. It may look like a romantic ruin now, but in the Guinness Book of World Records the Schlossberg bears the title of the strongest fortification of all time. Not even Napoleon could bring it down.
As you’re wending your way up the hill past the Clock Tower, sneak a peek down the well. Turkish Well Like the Russian steps, the Türkenbrunnen (“Turkish Well”) has a convoluted genealogy. The deep well – 94 meters down to groundwater – was the brainchild of Domenico dell’Allio, the man
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Renaissance engineering was fairly spectacular. The Große Zisterne (“Large Cistern” or “Great Well”) is the equivalent of a massive rainwater barrel. Interconnected shafts were built to channel and collect rainwater from surrounding buildings into a 16-meter deep basin. Its overall capacity is 900,000 liters. The cistern was created 10 years
Continue readingLarge Cistern & Bell Tower, Schlossberg, Graz, Austria