The round tower is an old tower with many hidden nooks and crannies, so sometimes things are not exactly where you think they would be.
It is one of the best-known stories about the Round Tower: that the Russian Tsar rode up the Spiral Ramp, while his wife followed in a carriage. But it is not quite certain what happened on that October day in 1716. Was there, for example, six, four or just a single horse in front of the Tsarina’s carriage?
What is the story about Koja and Wibeke who were so fond of each other that they placed a fine little heart between their names when in 1954, they scratched them into one of the 1674 small windowpanes in the Spiral Ramp?
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