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Public clock and watchtower<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had many functions: at 47 meters tall, it was a perfect lookout and a landmark for city life; in fact, its bell signaled solemnities and dangers, summoning the people of Mantua to action. In the 15th century, the tower housed the first public clock, hence its name, and a sundial that served to correct the motion of Bartolomeo Manfredi's mechanical clock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There Tower of the Hours <\/strong>It is also called the Podest\u00e0's Palace because it was built in the same years and next to the Palazzo del Podest\u00e0. Both were commissioned in 1227 by Laudarengo Martinengo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coats of arms of the most important podest\u00e0s once stood along the sides of the tower, but chronicles report that at the end of the 18th century, a group of rioting citizens tore down and broke many of these tombstones. Today, only one remains; the original is kept inside the Virgil Museum<\/strong>, in which the coat of arms of the Podest\u00e0 Ginori from 1494 can be recognised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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