This clock tower perched on the southern edge of Schlossberg is the city's emblem. Its present form dates back to the 1560s, and it is so beloved that the townsfolk of Graz paid Napoleon a ransom of 2987 florins and 11 farthings to spare it during his 1809 invasion.
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