" In Hebrew מגדל Migdal means " tower ", " fortress "; in Aramaic, " Magdala " means " tower " or " elevated, great, magnificent ".

The fortress incorporates some of the pre-existing southern walls, the pre-existing structures including the keep of Santo Martini, the San Giovanni tower and an ancient basilica which now serves as the fortress chapel. Though the town itself was eventually conquered, the fortress itself was never taken, an admirable feat, considering the size of the Sienese and Florentine forces that besieged Montalcino at varying intervals.

* The fortress with its keep and its 16th century bell tower protects Terra-Nova and offers great views over the old port, Terra Vecchia, the mountain and the coast.

One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal ; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

It has also been speculated that the tower was a fortress built to defend the city, similar to the Phasael tower.

In 1201, Kaloyan took over the Varna fortress, then in Byzantine hands, on Holy Saturday using a siege tower, and secured it for the Second Bulgarian Empire.

He begins his epic poem Rokeby ( 1813 ) with a man standing on guard on the round tower of the Barnard Castle fortress.

On the cape there are two lighthouses, a navigation tower, two military bunker complexes, the Slavic temple fortress of Jaromarsburg and several tourist buildings ( restaurants, pubs and souvenir shops ).

A tower of the Tsarevets fortress of the medieval Bulgarian capital, Veliko Tarnovo, is still called " Baldwin's Tower "; supposedly, it was the tower where he was interned.

Traces of a prehistoric camp have been found here, but in 1754, Randle Wilbraham of nearby Rode Hall built an elaborate summerhouse looking like a medieval fortress and round tower.

A huge brawl between orcs and Uruk-hai spreads all over the fortress, allowing Sam to enter the tower with ease.

A man named Will falls asleep and has a vision of a tower set upon a hill and a fortress ( donjon ) in a deep valley ; between these symbols of heaven and hell is a " fair field full of folk ", representing the world of mankind.

Considerable remains of the town's 13th-and 14th-century fortifications are still preserved, for instance a fortress tower known as the Schneiderturm (" Tailor's Tower ") or Säuturm (" Sow's Tower "), the Kalsmuntpforte (" Kalsmunt Gate " – see History ) which was the town gate for the earlier suburb of Silhofen, as well as large sections of the town wall.

View of the clock tower, located at the medieval fortress of the old town ( Varousi ).

The first building on this site was a fortress with a core tower built in the 13th century by Birger Jarl to defend Lake Mälaren.

According to al-Dimashqi ( who died in Safed in 1327 ), writing around 1300, Baybars, after levelling the old fortress, built a " round tower and called it Kullah ..". The tower is built in three stories.

File: Poeh museum, night. jpg | Poeh Museum tower, the tallest adobe structure in New Mexico, USA

Landmarks from left to right: Reichstag, Fernsehturm Berlin | TV tower at Alexanderplatz, Berliner Dom, Rotes Rathaus | City hall, Brandenburg Gate

Image: Baker settlement remains. jpg | Settlement remains, radio tower in background

The world's highest brick tower of St. Martin's Church, Landshut | St. Martin's Church in Landshut, Germany, completed in 1500

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

Clockwise from top left: The central street of Dubrovnik, the Stradun ( street ) | Stradun, in ruins during the Siege of Dubrovnik ; the damaged Vukovar water tower, a symbol of the early conflict, flying the Flag of Croatia | Croatian tricolour ; soldiers of the Croatian Army getting ready to destroy a Republic of Serbian Krajina | Serbian tank ; the Vukovar Memorial Cemetery ; a Serbian T-55 tank destroyed on the road to Drniš

Image: Water tower cropped. jpg | The water tower consists of a cone, a cylinder, and a hemisphere.

The keep | great tower is one of Kenilworth Castle's earliest surviving structures.

Image: Blythe's tower and Kinglassie 2007. JPG | Kinglassie from the South with Blythe's Tower atop Redwells hill to the North.

File: Knarrarósviti Lighthouse. jpg | The Knarrarósviti Lighthouse is a two-staged tower, built in 1938-1939, located near the town of Stokkseyri.

The Wire rope | steel cable of a coal mining | colliery headframe | winding tower

Construction schematic of a Prussian optical telegraph ( or Semaphore line | semaphore ) tower, C. 1835

January 7: The Leaning Tower of Pisa | Pisa tower closed.

The Gonbad-e Qabus ( tower ) | Gonbad-e Qabus Tower, built in 1006 during the Ziyarid | Ziyarid Dynasty of Iran.

The original diagram of Su Song's book Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao ( published 1092 ) showing the Water clock | clepsydra tank, waterwheel, escapement mechanism, chain drive, striking clock jacks, and armillary sphere of his clock tower.

Central tower of the Torralba, Sardinia | Nuraghe at Sant ' Antine of Torralba

Image: Cray-1-p1010227. jpg | Inside of the tower

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.

* Sint-Truiden ’ s historical centre includes the town hall ( Stadhuis ), with a 17th-century tower classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1999.

Among historical landmarks in the town are a free-standing 17th-century clock tower, a grand town hall originally designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Collingwood House the Georgian home of Admiral Lord Collingwood, and a 13th-century chapel called The Chantry which is now the tourist information centre and houses such cultural institutions as the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum.

An illustration from the British " Penny Magazine ", published in 1836 ( shown at right ), revealed to the Americans that the tower is of a similar type to Chesterton Windmill, a 17th-century mill near Chesterton, Warwickshire, England.

Apart from the keep the main structures surviving in the castle consist of the following: an early 14th century three towered fore work defending the keep entrance and including stables within it and which was accessed by a stone causeway crossing the partly in filled ditch of the earlier ringwork ; a huge late 13th-century three aisled great hall with an under croft beneath its east end opening via a water gate to the river ; a stout defensive tower turned into a solar in the late 13th century at the northern angle of the castle ; a smaller aisled hall added to the east end of the great hall in the 14th or 15th century ; a building ( possibly the mint ) added to the east end of the latter hall ; two 15th-or 16th-century stone buildings added inside the town gatehouse, 17th-century buildings added to the end of the hall range and to the north side of the keep and a series of lime kilns, one dating from the late 12th century the remainder from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

One tower from the 17th-century fortress still stands.

St. Lambert Kirche, the destination of the yearly Grand Cross procession, with its 17th-century baroque tower.

Though the bells were not rung from the 1970s onwards due to fears for the safety of the tower, ringing resumed in 2000 and the 17th-century bells, along with a sixth added in 1889, are now rung frequently.

The Rundetårn ( English: Round Tower ) is a 17th-century tower located in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

The castle comprises a tower house built in the late 15th century, and a 17th-century mansion, both of which were rebuilt in Victorian times.