Thursday marks exactly 550 years since the foundation stone of Prague’s Powder Tower was laid. The Gothic gateway remains one ...

The clock tower in Cedar Rapids’ Czech Village — which features the only astronomical clock in North America — will “awaken ...

The renovated clock tower will incorporate a Prague-styled astronomical clock called an orloj, modeled after the oldest functional orloj in the world in the Old Town Hall in Prague. Once it's done ...

Clocks involving mechanical figures often tell a story. In Prague, the astronomical clock set into the Old Town Hall Tower shows the procession of the Twelve Apostles, as the hour strikes from 9am ...

The renovated clocktower will incorporate a Prague-styled astronomical clock called an orloj ... Once it's done, it will be known as the Immigration Tower and will include figurines made in ...

Jonathan Stoneman gives his personal view in Comment. In front of Prague's old town clock tower, in a parade, the figure of death has just emerged from a door in the wall and is ringing in the ...