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The Clock Tower of Peñafiel

Peñafiel, Campo de Peñafiel, Valladolid

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The Clock Tower of Peñafiel

Monument · Peñafiel, Campo de Peñafiel, Valladolid

It began as the bell tower of the Romanesque church of San Esteban, built in 1086 and collapsed in 1613 according to the fabric records of Santa María de Mediavilla. A mechanical clock is already documented in the tower in 1532; the present mechanism dates from 1884 and came from the French workshops of Prost Frères, installed by the Valladolid clockmaker José Martínez de Velasco. The Concejo bell that strikes the hours, also called the Reloj (clock) bell, dates from 1664 and has marked the life of the people of Peñafiel for generations. The clock ran almost without interruption until 1998, when it stopped, until it was restored in 2012 by Daniel Sanz Platero; it is still wound by hand, with a rope that lasts eight days.

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