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brick friezes laid diagonally. There are 19th century shooting ranges adapted to firearms on the ground floor. The upper floors have large openings closed in sections with wooden shutters. The attic floor houses a wooden crane, with a preserved mechanism. On the northern side, the tower is connected
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to the building at 1 Mostowa Street (the so-called Swedish Granary, now the Granary Hotel) with a suspended passageway of skeleton structure, with plastered fillings. The tower is currently covered with a gable roof.
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The tower was built around the end of the 13th century. Its name comes from its function. In 1823 it was extended and connected to the Swedish Granary at 1 Mostowa Street, located behind it.
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The tower is located in the southern part of the Old Town Complex, at 3 Philadelphia Boulevard, to the west of the Bridge Gate (pol.
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View from the Granary Hotel overlooking the tower and the 19th century passageway
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is one of the nine remaining defensive towers within the city walls of
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The tower was built on a quadrilateral plan, using the Vendian
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