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      🏛 Söyembikä Tower

      Кремль, 17

      A leaning seven-tier red-brick tower, one of the symbols of Kazan and the heroine of city legends.

      Söyembikä Tower
      © A.Savin · FAL
      Söyembikä Tower
      © A.Savin · FAL
      • The tower is 58 metres tall and has seven tiers: three square and four octagonal.
      • It really does lean: the spire is about two metres off the vertical.
      • Nobody knows exactly when it was built; researchers give dates from the 15th to the early 18th century.
      • Legend has it that Queen Söyembikä threw herself from the seventh tier; there is no scientific evidence for it.
      • A double-headed eagle was raised on the spire around 1730, and in 1993 a gilded crescent appeared there again.
      • The foundation rests on oak piles, and the lower tier has a passage leading to the former governor's courtyard.

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      • All day: the Kremlin, Bauman and the Kazanka
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