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Transylvania / Romania

St. Nicholas Tower

Turnul Sfântul Nicolae
St. Nicholas Tower
Turnul Sfântul Nicolae
St. Nicholas Tower Lugoj
ronada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
church
Current function:
abandoned
Church:
Roman Catholic
Settlement:
Address:
Strada Victor Vlad Delamarina
Historical Hungarian county:
Krassó-Szörény
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.6867229345, 21.9071258171
Google map:

History

The tower originally belonged to a church or monastery church built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, which was rebuilt in 1726 by Captain Rátz János from Mehádia in Baroque style.

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