Clock tower of Santiago De Compostela Cathedral, NORTH OF SPAIN, 2021 (photo)

Clock tower of Santiago De Compostela Cathedral, Santiago De Compostela, Galicia, Spain. The clock, of Plateresque construction, has a single hand that marks only the hours in memory of the times when greater precision was not necessary; It takes place in the tower to which it gives its name: Torre del Reloj, also called Torre de la Trinidad, more than sixty meters high, mixed Gothic and Baroque. Now another bell of lower volume, also touches the quarters, complementing the hourly accuracy of the single hand. The first part of the tower is Torre_berenguela, the Baroque part, a Gothic cube with a defensive function, begun in the 14th century by order of Archbishop Don Rodrigo del Torre_berenguela_ou_do_reloxoPadrón and concluded by Archbishop Berenguel de Landoira, which gives its name to the tower and the main bell, although some romantics speculate that it is because he remembered the slenderness of Queen Berenguela.